SummaryJen (Matilda Lutz) is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend which is suddenly disrupted when his sleazy friends arrive for an unannounced hunting trip. Tension mounts in the house until the situation abruptly––and viciously––intensifies, culminating in a shocking act that leaves Jen left for dead. Unfortunately for her a...
SummaryJen (Matilda Lutz) is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend which is suddenly disrupted when his sleazy friends arrive for an unannounced hunting trip. Tension mounts in the house until the situation abruptly––and viciously––intensifies, culminating in a shocking act that leaves Jen left for dead. Unfortunately for her a...
This rape revenge story swaps points of view, but it doesn't break the mold. The characters, archetypes and beats are familiar, which allows Fargeat to play with symbolism in a bold, pointed manner.
This is not your parents **** revenge thriller. It's a **** horror movie like I Spit on your Grave, but it's written and directed by a woman so it's much more focused on the revenge less on **** male fantasies and it has a subversive feminist bent. The production notes say that they ran out of fake blood on location and had to fly more in. I believe it...
Revenge (2017) tinha tudo pra ser mais do mesmo, mas a direção, junto ao elenco, fazem do filme muito único.
Os momentos de tensão são únicos, com surpresas que te deixam sem ar. A violência é gráfica é insana, onde há momentos que te deixam enojado, quase que sentindo a dor do personagem. A fotografia é bela, passando muito bem o ponto de vista do personagem ou a própria imensidade do deserto - algumas vezes, sua beleza. O elenco está muito bem escalado, com todos os atores dando boas interpretações.
Porém, o que realmente chama atenção aqui é a direção da Cineasta Coralie Fargeat. O foco na reação dos personagens, a violência retratada, o jogo de edição feito em algumas cenas. É realmente fantástico. Uma trama extremamente básica simplesmente reimaginada. Fora que aqui não há militância, e tudo que a diretora quer mostrar está em tela, o que aumenta ainda mais minha admiração pela mesma.
The film we need right now, from a filmmaker we need right now: French writer/director Coralie Fargeat, who makes her stunning feature debut with a rape-revenge fantasy that’s as brutal as it is thrilling.
Revenge inverts the gutbucket revenge genre without transcending it. That said, why should men have all the fun? The movie is like Ladies’ Night at a sleaze-o bar.
This is a rape retaliation thriller both tautly controlled and wildly over-the-top, executed with flashy style, sly visual humor and a subversive feminist sensibility.
What’s as striking as the violence is Fargeat’s confidence as a filmmaker. She risks absurdity at every turn, fearlessly daring the audience to accept unlikely scenarios. Take that challenge. However difficult “Revenge” may be to watch at times, it’s worth it.
Right when I was ready to resign myself to the thought that Revenge simply started too strong to maintain itself, Fargeat brought me back from the brink with a tense labyrinthine conclusion making use of its locale and blood as plot propulsion.
Quelle surprise que ce film français tourné dans un désert américain avec en tout et pour tout deux comédiens français et deux comédiens américains dont la fille, héroïne impromptue et involontaire d'un dérapage parti dans les grandes largeurs et dans la poussière !
Heureusement qu'il est réalisé par une femme, car sinon, on en aurait entendu et vu et revu (des polémiques indignées et des cris d'orfraie : quel macho, quel salaud, quel obsédé, ce sale type, qui filme le cul de son actrice au lieu de faire du cinéma ! quelle honte...) mais détendez-vous, il s'agit de Coralie Fargeat qui filme le cul de son actrice mais pas seulement : elle film aussi le cul de son acteur (mais bien moins souvent quand même).
Quoi qu'il en soit, on adhère sans réserve aux plans nombreux du beau petit cul, quasiment tout au long du film, le fait étant que la "Tomb Raider" improvisée n'était pas trop habillée (un petit bas et un petit haut) lorsque les ennuis ont commencé. Et dire que les films "Tomb Raider" sont aussi chiants et convenus que la pluie, aussi coincés du fion qu'une amiche cadenassée à triple tour !
Mais l'action et la survie se déploient pendant ce temps-là, tandis que la cocotte qui tortille du derrière, va passer du statut de proie à celui de chasseresse. Jane, qu'elle s'appelle, Jane Rambo je crois, à la façon qu'elle a de se "réparer" avec un couteau et... (c'est une surprise). Mais les gars aussi vont en chier des ronds de chapeau, car s'il est des choses dans ce nanar de qualité -qui s'assume jusqu'au bout- ce sont les hectolitres de sang !
Indéniablement violent donc et très efficace malgré une mise en scène parfois un peu agitée (on ne court pas avec une caméra, bon sang !) mais ça reste rare, le reste s'avère de bon aloi et même un peu plus que ça, avec quelques efforts d'inventivité au niveau des plans et cadrages.
Bien entendu, sa faiblesse est aussi sa force, à savoir que les invraisemblances (nombreuses) laissent incrédules mais loin de s'en écarter, le film y plonge sans y regarder à deux fois : l'excès est son crédo ! et l'humour (qu'il soit vraiment involontaire ou non...) fournit de bonnes tranches de rire à intervalles plus ou moins réguliers. Qu'est-ce qu'on se bidonne...
En fait, j'ai repensé à ce bon vieux Commando (avec Schwarzynator) en regardant Revenge : on y retrouve la même violence décomplexée et les mêmes excès. La musique est dans les deux cas, excellente, ce qui leur fait un autre point commun.
Donc une belle réussite pour un film paradoxalement très féministe : notre bombasse allumeuse y devient une furie d'une volonté implacable : on l'admire et on la respecte, surtout qu'elle a bien plus de personnalité que cette grognasse de Lara Croft finalement.
Revenge follows a girl, named Jen, who is brought out to her boyfriend's luxurious house in the middle of the desert. They hang out for a bit until two of her boyfriend's friends show up for a hunting trip. When the boyfriend goes away for a few hours one of the men **** Jen, and then upon the boyfriend's return he offers her a job and money to forget about that happened, but she runs away and is eventually caught and pushed off of a cliff by the boyfriend and left for dead. Revenge is your typical revenge-tale film. The most original thing this film has to offer is how over-the-top the gore is, and while I'm all for that I don't think simply adding more gore to it makes it any better than any other revenge-tale flick. The cinematography is great, and it is awesome to see how Jen keeps herself alive and then goes after the men who tried to kill her, but there are also some very unbelievable moments throughout the story that made me get **** out of it for a moment or two. And like I said, there's not really anything new here that blew me away. It's not a bad watch, though.
the story felt like its written by some high school girl who was trying to write something edgy feminist during her boring history class. it did have some nice shots that felt like they belong to some dior perfume ad. but basically its a movie about this irresponsible blond who took the risk to have some fun with some hot rich married guy out in the middle of the desert. jens was not a good moral person, nor smart, nor strong. pretty unlikable from the start. the movie just presented her to the audience as some hot nympho who manipulated men to fall for her desire in the first 10mins. there was very little to feel for her other than the fact that she was a **** victim, and that was not compelling enough for me to root for her, while she ran around the rocky desert bare feet for 2 days with a speared thru torso AND without dying from blood loss or infection. The acting was horrendous. There were an incredible amount of holes throughout the entire movie. wheres the entry wound? the hunter didnt know how to hold his weapon? Where did the bullet hole go on the headrest? did they just run around in a circle for 5mins?
you might compare quentin tarantinos kill bill and that would be an insult to mr tarantino. Similar to matt damons great wall, this movies unintentionally bad it became entertaining, so i upped the score from a 2 to a 3.
Ignore the paid reviewers, and the "it empowers wahmen" reviewers. This is bad movie. It starts out decent, I can see potential, then it just gets stupid. Incredibly stupid. I found out the writer and director are the same person, which explains how a pump shotgun was being referred to and used as a scoped rifle, despite being loaded with shells. It also explains how any number of stupid things are done as they make no sense. I suspect the writer/director has never gone camping in her life, or ever handled a firearm. I feel dumber having watched most of the movie. In the end I just gave up because it was a gore-fest with no redeeming plot, but a lot of shots that were added purely for "artistic" value or to pound the foreshadowing into the viewer's head with the subtlety of repeated blows from a sledgehammer.
Since the writer/director may actually read this. Here is some advice. Cut the BS political message. You can have a strong female lead, but don't make an utterly moronic plot in order to depict an otherwise stupid girl as some sort of hero. Cut the foreshadowing/artistic shots. Just get rid of them if you can't make it subtle. Films can be artistic, but sacrificing actual plot for gratuitous artistic shots is bad film making. You should be asking yourself "how does this forward the plot?" If the answer is "it doesn't", then don't include it. Don't actually make a movie until you have ironed out the improbabilities and impossibilities. I am not a idiot, and you shouldn't be making movies for idiots. It is both immersion breaking and insulting when the audience is supposed to buy into something utterly stupid. Cut the blood/gore. In fact I suggest not making movies that use it at all, since you clearly don't know how to use blood/gore. It isn't something you throw into a scene to hide the fact the scene is crap. All you are doing is making bloody/gorey crap. Blood should be used like punctuation. You don't write with 15 exclamation marks on every line, and you shouldn't use blood excessively where it doesn't need to be used. There, I have given you career advancing advice, you can thank me later in life when you realize I am write. Oh, I have friends in the film industry, and I tell them when their films are crap too.