Posted on Tuesday, March 9th, 2021 by Jason Gorber
One of the most jarring, intense films to play at TIFF 2020 and Sundance 2021 was the revenge thriller
Violation. Sure to divide audiences, the same ambivalence was shared by one of /Film’s staff critic. In his mixed review, Chris Evangelista called
Madeleine Sims-Fewer and
Dusty Mancinelli’s work “unflinchingly brutal” yet “muddled,” while the “pervasive feeling of dread and horror is pitch-perfect” and that “there’s much here worth fixating on.”
Whether or not you feel the film sticks its landing, it’s clear that Sims-Fewer and Mancinelli are attempting something quite ambitious with their debut feature, anchored in part by Madeleine’s intense, violent portrayal of the central character Miriam on screen. In conversation with the two directors prior to the film’s Midnight Madness premiere, we asked them about the story’s complexity, how they navigated its bleak themes with a supportive cast, and
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Game of Thrones), Sam Keeley (
The Cured), Emmett Scanlan (
Outlander), and newcomer Yasmin Seky.
The series is written and co-created by Peter McKenna (
The Last Kingdom, Red Rock) who is also showrunner/executive producer, and co-created by Ciarán Donnelly (
Altered Carbon, Vikings).
Vikings, Into the Badlands) and Morgan O’Sullivan (
Penny Dreadful, The Tudors) are producing through their Metropolitan Films banner, with Emma Fleischer as supervising producer and Edmund Sampson as line producer. Dermot Horan, David Crean, and Shane Murphy are Executive Producers for RTÉ, Andrew Byrne for Screen Ireland, and Fredrik Lundjburg, Nanna Mailand and Filippa Wallestam are Executive Producers for NENT Studios.