Revenge (Shudder), Only God Forgives (Radius), Mandy (Rlje Entertainment)Graphic: The A.V. Club
The appeal of the revenge thriller is simple: it’s catharsis. A grim power fantasy that taps into the irrational parts of our brains that crave satisfaction after being wronged. Of course, in life, most people will...
The appeal of the revenge thriller is simple: it’s catharsis. A grim power fantasy that taps into the irrational parts of our brains that crave satisfaction after being wronged. Of course, in life, most people will...
- 4/4/2024
- by Jarrod Jones
- avclub.com
To mark the release of Revenge on 21st November, we’ve been given a Blu-ray copy to give away to 1 winner.
Entitled CEO Richard’s (Kevin Janssens – Undercover ) romantic getaway with his young mistress Jen (Lutz) is interrupted when his sleazy associates Stan (Vincent Colombe – Point Blank) and Dimitri (Guillaume Bouchède – Love at Second Sight) arrive early for the businessmen’s annual hunting trip. Their leering advances turn ugly, culminating in a brutal attack where Jen is left for dead in the desert. Like a phoenix from the ashes, Jen rises, and now she’s out for revenge. What follows is ‘a bloody middle finger…a demand for reckoning…a kick in the balls with a feminine combat boot’ (Rolling Stone).
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned…and now it’s time to get Revenge.
Please note: This competition is open to UK residents only
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Entitled CEO Richard’s (Kevin Janssens – Undercover ) romantic getaway with his young mistress Jen (Lutz) is interrupted when his sleazy associates Stan (Vincent Colombe – Point Blank) and Dimitri (Guillaume Bouchède – Love at Second Sight) arrive early for the businessmen’s annual hunting trip. Their leering advances turn ugly, culminating in a brutal attack where Jen is left for dead in the desert. Like a phoenix from the ashes, Jen rises, and now she’s out for revenge. What follows is ‘a bloody middle finger…a demand for reckoning…a kick in the balls with a feminine combat boot’ (Rolling Stone).
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned…and now it’s time to get Revenge.
Please note: This competition is open to UK residents only
a Rafflecopter giveaway...
- 11/14/2022
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
To mark the release of Revenge on 11th May, we’ve been given 1 boxset to give away on Blu-ray.
Entitled CEO Richard’s (Kevin Janssens –Undercover ) romantic getaway with his young mistress Jen (Matilda Lutz) is interrupted when his sleazy associates Stan (Vincent Colombe – Point Blank) and Dimitri (Guillaume Bouchède – Love at Second Sight) arrive early for the businessmen’s annual hunting trip. Their leering advances turn ugly, culminating in a brutal attack where Jen is left for dead in the desert. Like a phoenix from the ashes, Jen rises, and now she’s out for revenge. What follows is ‘a bloody middle finger…a demand for reckoning…a kick in the balls with a feminine combat boot’ (Rolling Stone).
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned…and now it’s time to get Revenge.
Watch our exclusive Revenge interviews here:
Please note: This competition is open to UK...
Entitled CEO Richard’s (Kevin Janssens –Undercover ) romantic getaway with his young mistress Jen (Matilda Lutz) is interrupted when his sleazy associates Stan (Vincent Colombe – Point Blank) and Dimitri (Guillaume Bouchède – Love at Second Sight) arrive early for the businessmen’s annual hunting trip. Their leering advances turn ugly, culminating in a brutal attack where Jen is left for dead in the desert. Like a phoenix from the ashes, Jen rises, and now she’s out for revenge. What follows is ‘a bloody middle finger…a demand for reckoning…a kick in the balls with a feminine combat boot’ (Rolling Stone).
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned…and now it’s time to get Revenge.
Watch our exclusive Revenge interviews here:
Please note: This competition is open to UK...
- 5/1/2020
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
MaryAnn’s quick take… This rape-revenge action horror is solid as pure grindhouse exploitation. But the rendering of its rage-fueled female protagonist is too salacious for this to ever be considered feminist. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m desperate for movies about women
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
(learn more about this)
A young woman arrives with her wealthy older — married — boyfriend at his getaway house in the desert. She’s not a child, but she’s pretty Lolita-esque, right down to her coquettish deployment of a lollipop. Then Richard’s (Kevin Janssens) deeply creepy pals, Stan (Vincent Colombe) and Dimitri (Guillaume Bouchède), arrive days early for their planned hunting trip, and Jen (Matilda Lutz) proceeds to flirt outrageously with them. This is perhaps to demonstrate to the viewer that Jen is just...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
(learn more about this)
A young woman arrives with her wealthy older — married — boyfriend at his getaway house in the desert. She’s not a child, but she’s pretty Lolita-esque, right down to her coquettish deployment of a lollipop. Then Richard’s (Kevin Janssens) deeply creepy pals, Stan (Vincent Colombe) and Dimitri (Guillaume Bouchède), arrive days early for their planned hunting trip, and Jen (Matilda Lutz) proceeds to flirt outrageously with them. This is perhaps to demonstrate to the viewer that Jen is just...
- 5/15/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Let us now praise exploitation movies – those grotty, violent, sordid movies as sticky as the floors of a Forty Deuce theater and as guilty-pleasurably queasy as a drive-in hot-dog binge. You could definitely see Coralie Fargeat's nasty little nugget of a debut slotting nicely into the middle section of a vintage triple feature, sandwiched by the Russ Meyer-sterpiece Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45; the latter is practically a spirit animal to this French take on the subgenre known as the "rape revenge" movie. Those...
- 5/14/2018
- Rollingstone.com
Stars: Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, Guillaume Bouchède | Written and Directed by Coralie Fargeat
French writer-director Coralie Fargeat makes a spectacular debut with Revenge, a stylish and super-violent thriller that brings a female perspective to the rape revenge genre and delivers a powerful kick to the unmentionables in the process.
The film’s take-no-prisoners attitude is perfectly summed up by its ingenious trailer, which intersperses clips from the film with actual online comments from disgruntled men about the film, with the tag-line “Coming for the haters”.
The plot is ridiculously simple. Married businessman Richard (Kevin Janssens) and his younger mistress Jen (Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz) arrive at a luxury retreat in a remote desert location (it was filmed in Morocco) for a spot of debauchery before Richard’s planned hunting trip. However, their fun and frolics are cut short when Richard’s two sleazy buddies, Stan (Vincent...
French writer-director Coralie Fargeat makes a spectacular debut with Revenge, a stylish and super-violent thriller that brings a female perspective to the rape revenge genre and delivers a powerful kick to the unmentionables in the process.
The film’s take-no-prisoners attitude is perfectly summed up by its ingenious trailer, which intersperses clips from the film with actual online comments from disgruntled men about the film, with the tag-line “Coming for the haters”.
The plot is ridiculously simple. Married businessman Richard (Kevin Janssens) and his younger mistress Jen (Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz) arrive at a luxury retreat in a remote desert location (it was filmed in Morocco) for a spot of debauchery before Richard’s planned hunting trip. However, their fun and frolics are cut short when Richard’s two sleazy buddies, Stan (Vincent...
- 5/11/2018
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
Is Coralie Fargeat’s stylish rape-revenge shocker a feminist take on the genre, or just more of the same brutality and bloodshed?
Is the rape-revenge genre just a way to bring the dual spectacles of rape and violence to a male audience? This is a French movie from first-time feature director and screenwriter Coralie Fargeat, and there is no doubt that it is smart, gruesomely violent and stylishly made. The DayGlo colours in the burning sun are as fierce as the retributive action brought by the plot. It has been hailed as a subversive feminist take on this form – although it is open to question whether the film would look all that different if it were directed by a man.
Revenge is not unlike Kill Bill, a modern classic that Uma Thurman has placed in a new light by disclosing what the director put her through in its making. The...
Is the rape-revenge genre just a way to bring the dual spectacles of rape and violence to a male audience? This is a French movie from first-time feature director and screenwriter Coralie Fargeat, and there is no doubt that it is smart, gruesomely violent and stylishly made. The DayGlo colours in the burning sun are as fierce as the retributive action brought by the plot. It has been hailed as a subversive feminist take on this form – although it is open to question whether the film would look all that different if it were directed by a man.
Revenge is not unlike Kill Bill, a modern classic that Uma Thurman has placed in a new light by disclosing what the director put her through in its making. The...
- 5/10/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Coralie Fargeat’s debut feature Revenge is a fast-paced, gory and decidedly unapologetic body horror film which manages to incorporate a strong feminist message into an otherwise unabashedly violent genre movie. Written, as well as directed, by Fargeat the film packs more punches than your average Hollywood action flick, and is surprisingly unafraid to show its subversive horror credentials all the while making a strong case for the need for more female-led genre films, particularly in the current climate.
Jen (Matilda Lutz) is happily enjoying an illicit getaway with her married boyfriend Richard (Kevin Janssens) when the lovers are suddenly interrupted by the arrival of Richard’s sleazy hunting buddies Stan (Vincent Colombe) and Dimitri (Guillaume Bouchède). After a night of heavy drinking and high-jinx, tensions rise between Jen and one of the unexpected guests, all of which culminates in a shocking act of violence against the young woman, leaving her for dead.
Jen (Matilda Lutz) is happily enjoying an illicit getaway with her married boyfriend Richard (Kevin Janssens) when the lovers are suddenly interrupted by the arrival of Richard’s sleazy hunting buddies Stan (Vincent Colombe) and Dimitri (Guillaume Bouchède). After a night of heavy drinking and high-jinx, tensions rise between Jen and one of the unexpected guests, all of which culminates in a shocking act of violence against the young woman, leaving her for dead.
- 5/9/2018
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"Why are women always so bad at being cool?" Neon has revealed a hilarious new trailer for the action thriller Revenge, from newcomer Coralie Fargeat making her feature directorial debut. This gritty, violent film is about a woman who takes revenge on the men who try to attack her. The trailer actually quotes real men online who left dumb comments about women, and it's kind of crazy, but kind of awesome. This is so bold but I love it. Matilda Lutz stars as Jen, with a cast including Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, and Guillaume Bouchède. Described as a "razor-sharp feminist subversion of the revenge-thriller", that "gloriously blurs the lines of vengeance and survival while simultaneously delivering a ferocious dissection of gender and genre." I actually really want to see this anyway, just because it looks like a good action film. Here's the newest official trailer (+ a Japanese poster) for Coralie Fargeat's Revenge,...
- 5/8/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The front half of Coralie Fargeat’s debut feature Revenge provides audiences the sort of sensory overload that hits like a sledgehammer. You might not think this will be the case considering things start off with a serenely static shot of desert expanse while a helicopter approaches from the center of the frame, but the hard rock riffs kick in soon after with music video style glamour shots of Jen (Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz) and Richard (Kevin Janssens) starring into the distance. They’re here for a wild weekend of sex and solitude — a welcome combination considering his wife and kids are back at home. Fargeat shoots her introduction with a male gaze towards female objectification, Richard’s fantasies being realized thanks to a very game Jen always ready to please.
The close-ups show her waist at the refrigerator, her body a thing to stare at while she saunters carefree through the secluded mansion.
The close-ups show her waist at the refrigerator, her body a thing to stare at while she saunters carefree through the secluded mansion.
- 5/8/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
A douchebag alpha dad played by the shredded and square-jawed Belgian actor Kevin Janssens, Richard just wants to spend a quiet weekend in the desert with his teenage mistress, far away from his unseen wife and their pesky children. After all, there’s no point in buying a glass mansion in the middle of nowhere if you’re not going to have illicit sex all over it. And it’s not like Jen (Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz) isn’t totally into it. The young aspiring actress goes full Lolita in the introductory shot where she climbs out of a helicopter in slow-motion, her eyes shaded in pink sunglasses and her lips pursed around a lollipop. Between the ogling and the Hype Williams hyper-saturation of Robrecht Heyvaert’s cinematography, we’re only one vaguely racist alien robot away from a Michael Bay movie.
Bad news for Richard: This is not a Michael Bay movie.
Bad news for Richard: This is not a Michael Bay movie.
- 5/7/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Revenge Red Band and Green Band Trailers
Coralie Fargeat‘s Revenge (2017) red band and green band movie trailers stars Matilda Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, and Guillaume Bouchède. Revenge‘s plot synopsis: “Jen (fearlessly embodied by Matilda Lutz, Rings) is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend which is suddenly disrupted when his sleazy friends arrive [...]
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Coralie Fargeat‘s Revenge (2017) red band and green band movie trailers stars Matilda Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, and Guillaume Bouchède. Revenge‘s plot synopsis: “Jen (fearlessly embodied by Matilda Lutz, Rings) is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend which is suddenly disrupted when his sleazy friends arrive [...]
Continue reading: Revenge (2017) Red Band & Green Band Movie Trailers: Matilda Lutz Delivers Bloody Retribution
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- 3/31/2018
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
"Never take your mistress on an annual guys' getaway, especially one devoted to hunting - a violent lesson for three wealthy married men." Neon has debuted an official red band trailer for an action thriller titled Revenge, from newcomer Coralie Fargeat making her feature directorial debut. This played to some rave reviews at Fantastic Fest and Tiff last year, and seems like a gritty film with a helluva pitch (see the one-line synopsis at the start of this post). Matilda Lutz stars as Jen, with a cast including Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, and Guillaume Bouchède. It's described as a "razor-sharp feminist subversion of the revenge-thriller", that "gloriously blurs the lines of vengeance and survival while simultaneously delivering a ferocious dissection of gender and genre." Sounds awesome, doesn't it? Yes, you might want to take a look. Here's the official red band trailer (+ original trailer / poster) for Coralie Fargeat's Revenge, on...
- 3/30/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Starting today through Sunday, April 1st, What the Fest!? takes place at the IFC Center in New York City. We have a look at the full lineup of horror and sci-fi goodness in today's Horror Highlights, which also includes Corbin Nash trailer starring Malcolm MacDowell and The Unwilling release details.
What the Fest!? 2018 Lineup Announced: Press Release: "(New York, NY | March 7, 2018) IFC Center is proud to announce the full slate for the upcoming film festival What the Fest!? (www.whatthefestnyc.com), a four-day showcase of outrageous content -- horror, sci-fi, documentary, thrillers, and beyond -- from March 29th through April 1st.What the Fest!? will feature exciting premieres, including one world premiere, one Us premiere, many New York premieres and the world premiere of a new digital restoration of a film never before released in the U.S. What the Fest!? also boasts under the radar cinematic finds, film festival hits from Sundance,...
What the Fest!? 2018 Lineup Announced: Press Release: "(New York, NY | March 7, 2018) IFC Center is proud to announce the full slate for the upcoming film festival What the Fest!? (www.whatthefestnyc.com), a four-day showcase of outrageous content -- horror, sci-fi, documentary, thrillers, and beyond -- from March 29th through April 1st.What the Fest!? will feature exciting premieres, including one world premiere, one Us premiere, many New York premieres and the world premiere of a new digital restoration of a film never before released in the U.S. What the Fest!? also boasts under the radar cinematic finds, film festival hits from Sundance,...
- 3/29/2018
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
The last few weeks have felt like an endless marathon for this writer, trying to keep up with a myriad of cinematic delights, including this latest batch of films I saw while at the 2017 Fantastic Fest last month. Read on for my thoughts on this trio of amazing indie movies, including first-time feature filmmaker Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge, My Friend Dahmer from Marc Meyer, and Let the Corpses Tan by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani.
Revenge: It’s no secret that the decision to attend Fantastic Fest this year came with some controversy attached to it, especially in regards to the issues of sexual assault and the way women can be, and have been, treated by society. And for Fargeat, she embraced this controversy with her bold decision to still screen her film Revenge in Austin, and I have to say, I am So glad she did. In what...
Revenge: It’s no secret that the decision to attend Fantastic Fest this year came with some controversy attached to it, especially in regards to the issues of sexual assault and the way women can be, and have been, treated by society. And for Fargeat, she embraced this controversy with her bold decision to still screen her film Revenge in Austin, and I have to say, I am So glad she did. In what...
- 10/24/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
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