This is the first a series of ongoing events in Plymouth that forms part of Birds’ Eye View’s new 4 film/5-city Reclaim The Frame Influencers project; a mission to build a movement that brings ever-greater audiences to films by women to build a more balanced film future.

First up is Revenge by Coralie Fargeat, the powerful, provocative, grind-house revenge thriller.

See it with Birds’ Eye View and join our audience discussion after with Birds’ Eye View director at large, Mia Bays, Chair of the Critics’ Circle, Anna Smith, Birds’ Eye View curator Jo Duncombe and Director of Film Studies at Exeter University, Fiona Handyside . Nothing will prepare you for this bold and bloody revenge film from French newcomer Coralie Fargeat – who demonstrates that the female gaze comes in all ways.

Jen (fearlessly embodied by Matilda Lutz, Rings) is enjoying a supposed romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend which is suddenly disrupted when his sleazy friends arrive for an unannounced hunting trip.

Tension mounts in the house until the situation abruptly — and viciously — intensifies; culminating in a shocking act that leaves Jen left for dead.

Unfortunately for her assailants, Jen survives and reemerges with a relentless, wrathful intent: revenge.

A white-knuckle tale of transgression and transformation, Revenge gloriously blurs the lines of vengeance and survival while simultaneously delivering a ferocious dissection of gender and genre.

“With her stylish and bloody rape-revenge thriller, French first-timer Coralie Fargeat turns a disputable subgenre upside down.” – Variety

 “Revenge is a rape retaliation thriller both tautly controlled and wildly over-the-top, executed with flashy style, sly visual humor and a subversive feminist sensibility. ” – Hollywood Reporter