Revanche - Ti ucciderò

A Seamy Side of Vienna, With No Waltzes Included

A nominee for best foreign-language film at this year’s Oscars, Götz Spielmann’s “Revanche” is a tidy, glum thriller that aims for a tone of sour humanism, perched just on the near edge of cynical despair. Traveling from a decidedly unromantic Vienna to a weary-looking but still picturesque stretch of Austrian countryside, the film also spans the distance from lower-depths realism to moral fable.
Or tries to, at any rate. Mr. Spielmann seems to be after a combination of starkness and psychological complication, and the result is a pileup of motives and implications that undermine the blunt impact of the story. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (2385 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 1 maggio 2009