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Oct 13, 2023 · NDiaye, a French author of a dozen books and a handful of plays, is a master at agitating, probing and upending expectations. In her latest offering, “Vengeance Is Mine,” dutifully translated ...
- Lovia Gyarkye
Nov 3, 2023 · Vengeance Is Mine, Undiscovered, Pedro and Marques Take Stock come from one of France's most significant living writers, a major voice in Peru, and a new talent from Brazil, respectively.
- Lily Meyer
Oct 17, 2023 · VENGEANCE IS MINE. A twisty and unsettling psychological puzzle. A portrait of a woman on the verge of—or maybe beyond—a nervous breakdown. (Apologies to Almodóvar!) When Gilles Principaux hires Maître Susane to defend his wife, Marlyne, who’s been accused of the murder of their three young children in Bordeaux, the attorney spirals ...
Oct 17, 2023 · The central ideas in Vengeance Is Mine are, thrillingly, as difficult to pin down as the identities of its characters. In one light, it’s a scathing look at the simmering desperation provoked by France’s rigid structures of authority and power. But it’s also an uber-feminist rewriting of a plot made familiar by texts from Medea ...
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Oct 18, 2023 · October 18, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. EDT. (Knopf) 5 min. Maître Susane is a lonely woman: single and gray-haired in her early 40s, with a barely operative solo law practice, a fraying relationship with ...
- Talya Zax
May 26, 2022 · “Vengeance Is Mine” weaves this web of mothers and daughters and God, of puritans and quiet Eastern Europeanism and “ethnics,” spun by Roemer, a German Jew who, as a boy, escaped the ...
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Vengeance is Mine. The movie has been described as a Japanese "In Cold Blood," and that will do for starters, I suppose. But the Richard Brooks film of "In Cold Blood" went for a black and white, grimly realistic documentary look, while director Shohei Imamura has wider concerns in "Vengeance is Mine." His film is based on the true story of ...
