The Calgary Underground Film Festival
Revenge
France, 2017: 108 minutes: Alberta Premiere
description
What starts as a weekend getaway between a married man and his mistress quickly devolves into a deadly game of cat and mouse when his hunting buddies arrive. Director Coralie Fargeat revamps and recalibrates the revenge trope from a female perspective, creating a violent, visceral monomyth about the rebirth and survival of a woman wronged seeking to even the score.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Toronto International Film Festival 2017
Fantastic Fest 2017
Sundance 2018
Boston Underground Film Festival 2018
DIRECTOR'S BIO
Coralie Fargeat was born and raised in Paris, France. She studied at French cinema school La Fémis, where she was chosen to participate in their Atelier Scénario lab. Her debut short film, LE TÉLÉGRAMME, won 13 awards at multiple film festivals, and her sci-fi short film REALITY+ has won multiple awards on the festival circuit. REVENGE is her first feature.
press for Revenge
"With her stylish and bloody rape-revenge thriller, French first-timer Coralie Fargeat turns a disputable subgenre upside down."- Variety
"Coralie Fargeat’s feature directorial debut isn’t only an astonishing, subversive take on tired clichés; it’s also a confidently crafted tale of female survival and rebirth, featuring a fierce performance from Matilda Lutz..."- ScreenCrush
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Action / Female Filmmaker / First Feature / Thriller / Suspense
English108 minutes
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Director
Coralie Fargeat
Screenwriter
Coralie Fargeat
Editing
Coralie Fargeat
Bruno Safar
Jerome Eltabet
Cinematographer
Robrecht Heyvaert
Cast
Matilda Lutz
Kevin Janssens
Vincent Colombes
Guillaume Bouchède
Music
MOB
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