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Based on Jim Karabatsos's excellent script with strong characters, Richard Pearce directs with inspiration and brings out the deafening emotion.

He leads Richard Gere in a unique performance, as he does with the amazing Kim Basinger while he has Jeroen Krabbe and a large number of minor characters in short, strong appearances.

"No Mercy" is one of the few "click" films, where everything has come to click magically, even Alan Silvestri's excellent theme music and the choice of locations.

A truly b movie, which, after making an unexpected journey with an emotional cinematic sense, will return in the end, where it belongs.

With almost no rules and no aesthetics, Lothar Lambert captures fragmentary images and scenes that have the amateur sense of a family video.

But through these simple, often delusional scenes, sometimes something emerges. Something that has a taste of tragedy under a cold, neutral surface.

Black and white primitive images convey a force from nowhere and overturn all clichés. Poor images that Ulrike's presence gives them the strange feeling as if someone is being born before our eyes.

An actress trying to escape from the margin but at the same time she has a constant contact with reality.

-Where is Fraulein Berlin, she shallbe asked at the end.

-She doesn't exist any more, is the answer...

Based on Ripstein's "Castle of Purity", Lanthimos and his scriptwriter take the main event and give it back in a modern, provocative perspective.

Art direction, photography and the whole set has a clinical touch and actors behave in a mechanic way.

Characters are simple, schematic, every day people but in absurd conditions. The children although old enough remain kids hoping to get out of this villa prison when they grow adult, which means when their dogtooth falls. But there is no perspective.

The same happens to the film itself. After a first surprise, you feel it goes nowhere. It is the kind of a film with no future, like the characters themselves.