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DeFalco, Amelia
Quarterly review of film and video, 10/2018, Volume: 35, Issue: 7Journal Article
In this essay, DeFalco examines recent European art films that move beyond an implicit interrogation of the revenge tradition to reinterpret the tradition itself in ways that radically challenge the possibility of legitimized violence. She argues that what she term "anti-revenge" films, in particular Andrea Arnold's Red Road (2006), and Gotz Spielmann's Revanche (2008), frustrate the desire for vengeance (both the protagonist's and the spectator's), replacing violent spectacle with uneasy engagement that inhibits revenge, gesturing instead toward the possibility, however remote, of forgiveness.
