In a 2018 interview promoting her feature debut, Revenge, director Coralie Fargeat revealed a personal fact that would later become extremely obvious. “I really like Paul Verhoeven as a director,” she told the YouTube channel HeyUGuys.
In the context of Revenge, a relatively grounded action thriller, this nod to the director of allegorical (and frequently misunderstood) sci-fi classics like RoboCop and Starship Troopers felt slightly out of place. But six years later, with the added context of her latest film, Fargeat’s interview suddenly makes a lot more sense.
