"It works because Spielmann has established that we're not watching belabored dramatic trajectories collide, but an encounter between two people in miles-away mindsets."

Gotz Speilmann's film is well-made, aptly characterised and seems frighteningly true to life.

It has a distinctive sort of Euro-hardcore sheen, mainly due to the superbly lucid, diamond-hard cinematography from Martin Gschlacht.

Revanche has two meanings in German: revenge or a second chance. Both are apt in this beautiful, haunting and touching film.