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Jen (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 until the situation abruptly –– and viciously –– intensifies, culminating in a shocking act that sees Jen bleeding out in a desert canyon and left for dead. Unfortunately for her assailants, Jen survives and reemerges with a relentless, wrathful intent — revenge.
A white-knuckle tale of transgression and transformation, REVENGE gloriously blurs the lines of vengeance and survival while delivering a ferocious dissection of gender and genre. The Oscar-nominated director of last year’s breakout body-horror hit THE SUBSTANCE, Coralie Fargeat announced her stunning arrival with this ultraviolent, razor-sharp feminist subversion of the revenge-thriller.
“REVENGE is the film we need right now, from a filmmaker we need right now…. It allows us to live vicariously through a woman who delivers payback and then some to the men who viewed her as disposable…. It ends up becoming a feel-good tale of a woman enduring a series of horrific abuses and triumphantly coming into her own at the end.” —Christy Lemire, rogerebert.com (May 11, 2018) “In other hands, this film could go kitsch, could all be a big joke, but Fargeat directs Lutz like no other Rambo-style action hero before her…. It’s a multi-layered performance we rarely get in an action film: can you imagine Sylvester Stallone or Bruce Willis betraying their characters’ own assured masculinity with a trace of vulnerability? No.” —April Wolfe, The Wrap (May 10, 2018)
