Prevenge (2016)
Country: GB
Technical: col 88m
Director: Alice Lowe
Cast: Alice Lowe, Kayvan Novak, Jo Hartley
Synopsis:
When her husband is killed in a climbing incident, a woman transfers her rage to her unborn baby, who tells her to kill random men and women, ultimately focusing in on those she deems responsible for his death.
Review:
What might have done service for a televisual half-hour seems overstretched at feature length. The actress-director works a few laughs from embittered lines and bloodthirsty gusto, but holds nothing in reserve for a denouement so that, in common with a lot of British film-making, the picture seems little more than a walk through its locations and sardonic world view. Lowe was in fact seven months pregnant during filming, and perhaps the film says most about her ambivalent feelings of motherhood and past work with Ben Wheatley or Horrible Histories!
Country: GB
Technical: col 88m
Director: Alice Lowe
Cast: Alice Lowe, Kayvan Novak, Jo Hartley
Synopsis:
When her husband is killed in a climbing incident, a woman transfers her rage to her unborn baby, who tells her to kill random men and women, ultimately focusing in on those she deems responsible for his death.
Review:
What might have done service for a televisual half-hour seems overstretched at feature length. The actress-director works a few laughs from embittered lines and bloodthirsty gusto, but holds nothing in reserve for a denouement so that, in common with a lot of British film-making, the picture seems little more than a walk through its locations and sardonic world view. Lowe was in fact seven months pregnant during filming, and perhaps the film says most about her ambivalent feelings of motherhood and past work with Ben Wheatley or Horrible Histories!
Country: GB
Technical: col 88m
Director: Alice Lowe
Cast: Alice Lowe, Kayvan Novak, Jo Hartley
Synopsis:
When her husband is killed in a climbing incident, a woman transfers her rage to her unborn baby, who tells her to kill random men and women, ultimately focusing in on those she deems responsible for his death.
Review:
What might have done service for a televisual half-hour seems overstretched at feature length. The actress-director works a few laughs from embittered lines and bloodthirsty gusto, but holds nothing in reserve for a denouement so that, in common with a lot of British film-making, the picture seems little more than a walk through its locations and sardonic world view. Lowe was in fact seven months pregnant during filming, and perhaps the film says most about her ambivalent feelings of motherhood and past work with Ben Wheatley or Horrible Histories!