Interesting French revenge flick from the Fun City Editions “Seeing Red” Blu-ray Set. Story concerns a man whose girlfriend is killed in an attack by some thugs at the beginning which sets him off on a mission to track down her killer. While he is pursuing his own leads, the cops are working theirs as we see intermittent flashbacks of the couples’ relationship and how it developed. Builds to a nice climax.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

DON’T FUCK WITH MAMA BEAR.

There is no rage like a mother’s rage. If anything ever happened to my daughter, I would slap on my patent leather trench coat and become the terminator. Nothing could stop me.

Imagine making a low budget kinda industrial-film-looking movie that uses a sexual assault to examine Texas history and gun culture in general in 1983 and somehow keep it relevant for forty years while containing a scene of abuse that for what it lacks in actual physical violence (It is violent, to be sure) more than makes up for it with unctuous genuine matter-of-factness that is just so mentally destructive.

A fascinating combination of slice of life Americana and r*pe-revenge with a heavy dose of political commentary. Subverts the genre beautifully while still maintaining a real stripped back grit and forcefulness. I LOVED it.

A real hammer!