Prevenge (2017)
Directed by Alice Lowe
A pregnant widow, believing herself to be guided by her unborn child, embarks on a homicidal rampage.
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Lowe’s determinedly low-key performance is a marvel even through the film’s few lulls: She’s dry even when anguished, with flashes of wide-eyed mania that seem to channel Isabelle Adjani in “Possession.”
In her us-against-the-world relationship with her baby, in the isolation of her widowhood, in her obtuse dedication to revenge, in the burning dilemma of her questionable sanity, Lowe puts Ruth alongside both Isabelle Adjani in Possession and Michael Douglas in Falling Down.
Elsewhere, a low-angle shot of her writhing in an underpass clearly evokes an infamous sequence from Andrzej ?u?awski’s magnificently unhinged Possession , with the ghosts of Gaspar Noé’s Irréversible lurking in the shadows.
…(as well as small roles in Edgar Wright’s Hot Fuzz and The World’s End) is becoming its onscreen face.