★☆☆☆☆Can a movie be feminist and misogynist at the same time? Can a female director make a cheap and tacky piece of exploitation perv-bait without actually knowing it? Does regularly filling the framewith the lead actress’s barely covered buttocks qualify as an act of female empowerment? These are some of the many questions that swirl around, and ultimately trouble, the French director Coralie Fargeat’s blood-spattered feature debut. Labelled a “feminist rape-revenge movie”, it takes all the traditional tenets of that most dubious of genres and simply does them again.

Source: The Times May 10, 2018 23:02 UTC