PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews director Alice Lowe, who talks about her film Prevenge from the 73rd Venice Film Festival [International Critics’ Week]
Alice Lowe is a talented and funny woman who decided that she wanted to do a movie, when pregnant, about a pregnant woman with a slightly deranged mind. And we are glad she did it! With an obvious love for B movies and slasher movies she created a funny but also intense portrait of a strange relationship between a woman and the baby in her womb. With a touch of splatter, that always works.
PREVENGE. Ruth is to be a single mother, for reasons which become plain, and is also suffering from the paranoid delusion that her baby is telling her to kill people – which she duly does, over and over again. Some of the people she kills are nasty, such as the creepy specialist pet-shop owner, and the 70s disco DJ who throws up into his afro wig. But some are nice and some appear to have no connection at all with Ruth’s current situation.