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'Retaliation': Film Review

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24.07.2020 - 12:09

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The sophomore feature from British sibling directors Ludwig and Paul Shammasian (The Pyramid Texts) doesn't waste any time establishing its themes.

The opening moments feature a scene of workmen demolishing a church, a couple engaging in rough sex, and a fiery sermon delivered by a street preacher.

With this immediate blending of violence, sex and religion, you wind up surprised that the film wasn't written by Paul Schrader.

Rather, Retaliation was scripted by Geoff Thompson, delivering a taut, intense story about a man wracked by childhood trauma and forced to deal with it all over again many years later.

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