Revanche has two meanings in German: revenge or a second chance. Both are apt in this beautiful, haunting and touching film.

| Oct 3, 2019

A slow-burning thriller, both lovely and haunting; hammering home the point that sometimes man's greatest enemy is himself.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2019

Revanche proposes a way out for some of its characters and some of the emerging impasses in European filmmaking.

| Oct 2, 2017

"It works because Spielmann has established that we're not watching belabored dramatic trajectories collide, but an encounter between two people in miles-away mindsets."

| Jul 1, 2013

Impressive noir film that befits Greek tragedy as it travels deep into sublime territory.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 18, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Austria's nominee for the Best Foreign Language Oscar is a precise and effective psychological thriler

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 15, 2011

Gotz Speilmann's film is well-made, aptly characterised and seems frighteningly true to life.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2010

More character study than thriller (the title means "revenge"), this slow-burning Austrian film effectively holds our interest with its unpredictable plot, even though it's not easy to care where it's going.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2010

Revanche (French for 'revenge') is that rarest of things -- a thoughtful thriller.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 6, 2010

It unfurls at a slow, measured pace, and director Götz Spielmann uses the plot's Noir-esque trappings as a jumping-off point for an absorbing morality tale about the way life never turns out as planned. It's bleak, but in a good way.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 3, 2010

A modern fable which draws broad parallels and depicts profound moral quandaries with an elegance and frankness rare in cinema.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 1, 2010

It has a distinctive sort of Euro-hardcore sheen, mainly due to the superbly lucid, diamond-hard cinematography from Martin Gschlacht.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 30, 2010

It's a slow-burning Austrian thriller with no stars, no special effects and, by the looks of it, almost no budget. But sometimes a little goes a long way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 30, 2010

Aided by a terrific performance from Krisch and an exceptional ensemble cast, Revanche is a beautifully crafted psychological thriller that should firmly place Götz Spielmann on the world cinema map.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 30, 2010

The film exerts a steady grip without charging head-first into thriller territory: there's a cool, cosmic irony to the way fate wheels around.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 29, 2010

As good a thriller as you'll see this year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2010

Tauntingly slow but hauntingly shot (and edited with crisp abruptness), it was a deserving nominee for Best Foreign Film at last year's Oscars.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2010

This riveting study of desire, isolation, guilt and redemption bears the influence of both Robert Bresson and Michael Haneke, and proves surprisingly optimistic in its assessment of human weakness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2010