Festivals - TIFF 2017 : Be ready to discover the Coralie Fargeat‘s first shock film Revenger

Par Mulder, 25 août 2017

Revenge is a 2017 French rape and revenge horror film directed and written by Coralie Fargeat. It has been selected to be screened in the Midnight Madness section of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. Photographed with a blinding sunbleached palette of orange and teal that recalls MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, REVENGE plunges Jen into an arid, drug-induced hell, but one she resolves to emerge from, leaving a tidal wave of gory violence in her wake.

On this occasion, rediscover her short film Reality+

Synopsis:
Soaking the perennial rape/revenge thriller in a strikingly hypnotic style, writer-director Coralie Fargeat's compelling feature debut reframes the genre's typical proclivities with a gaze that scrutinizes male bodies and foregrounds its protagonist's transformation into a hardened vehicle of vengeance. It's a potent gambit, and one that permits its upsetting premise to assume a wry sense of humour as it careens towards a cathartic climax of outrageously bloody retribution and a rather practical use of Saran Wrap. Evoking Kubrick's Lolita, Jen (Matilda Lutz), arrives at a remote desert villa with her millionaire Adonis boy toy (Kevin Jannsens) for a weekend of romantic (and illicit) frivolity. Things go south quickly when her lover's unseemly hunting pals show up and make inappropriate advances that escalate into an outright assault. The men quickly try to sweep their attack under the rug, but Jen won't have it and, well… hell hath no fury....

Public Screenings:
Public Screening #1: Monday, September 11, 11:30am at Scotiabank Theater 9
Public Screening #2: Monday, September 11, 3:45pm at Scotiabank Theater 11
Public Screening #3: Saturday, September 16, 3:30pm at Scotiabank Theater 7

Revenge (Midnight Madness)
Written and Directed by Coralie Fargeat
Produced by Marc-Etienne Schwartz, Marc Stanimirovic, Jean-Yves Robin
Starring Matilda Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, Vincent Colombe, Guillaume Bouchède,
Music by Rob
Cinematography Robrecht Heyvaert
Edited by Coralie Fargeat, Bruno Safar
Jérôme Eltabet
Production companies : MES Productions, Monkey Pack Films
Distributed by Rezo Films
Running time : 108 minutes
Country France
Language English, French