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I Spit on Your Grave , 15 March 2009
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I Spit On Your Grave
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Camille Keaton, Eron Tabor, Anthony Nichols
Director: Meir Zarchi
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There's so much in I Spit On Your Grave to both condemn and commend. Yes it's relentlessly nasty and expolitative. Yes the fact that the main character is raped for almost half the films running time is reprehensible. Yes the way it revels in her vengeance is troubling. And yes, most of the acting is outright awful. Yet, for all its horrors, you can't deny that the film achieves everything it sets out to achieve. It is absolutely, unequivocally, not a film that celebrates or condones rape. Zarchi, like Gaspar Noe did more recently with Irreversible, wants to put us through the ordeal of his main character with her. He achieves this brilliantly, with no little help from an excellent and brave performance from Camille Keaton. The film is very real, despite the sometimes pantomimic performances of the male stars, because Zarchi takes something of a verite approach, using the camera unobtrusively, and stripping out all music without a source in the frame. I Spit On Your Grave is relentless, difficult and disturbing, but that's what it wants to be.
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