Prevenge

Prevenge is a good film. It's a very gritty film. You tend to know pretty clearly where it's going, but you're still not sure how it's going to end. It’s pretty evident that the film is British, and that is definitely a good thing. It's as if underneath it all there is a dry humor that jumps out at you in the form of the individual deaths. There’s also a very interesting visual aspect that can surprise us with masks in the final part. (18.12.2017)

Alice Lowe, an otherwise very busy actress, wrote down and filmed her anxieties and anger, maybe to calm herself down. This pseudo-psychological drama is about a wacky, middle-aged pregnant widow who lets the voice of her unborn child push her into murdering everyone who doesn’t perfectly suit her. Prevenge is a cold-blooded film with no creative vision of any value and no clarification of the main character’s motivation. It doesn’t work either as a cynical black comedy or as an allegory of society’s twisted values (selfishness, unaccountability). (16.10.2020)