Revanche
2008
***
Director: Götz Spielmann
Cast: Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Ursula Strauss, Hanno Pöschl
An ex-con wants to have a clean break with his prostitute girlfriend and decides to rob a bank. The plan goes horribly wrong and he's forced to hide at his grandfather's farm. This Austrian drama treads a familiar path, but it has a fresh spring in its step. The pace is slow and the protagonist is neither smart nor particularly likeable, but it is nicely unclear where the story is going to end up. However, you must suspend your disbelief in order to accept the massive coincidence at the centre of the story, which brings the two interlinked characters together.
