Revanche echoes Bergman and Breathless - but please don't make an American version and trash it up

Here's a movie that, judged on its own terms, is almost perfect. Read any capsule summary of Gotz Spielman's "Revanche" and it sounds like a total downer: excon working in brothel falls for Ukrainian prostitute. Who would watch it? Drawn by strong reviews, we did and found it an amazing, thoughtful, tense, provocative film. A little more plot summary (spoiler!): the excon robs a bank, during the escape a cop accidentally shoots and kills his girlfriend, excon plots revenge (revanche?) against the cop. Though this sounds like an action picture - and it does have some very tense scenes, a robbery, a chase, a lot of graphic sex - it is a surprisingly deep and thoughtful movie, with a lot of exploration of the spiritual angst of the characters (obvious echos of Bergman) and a very credible portrait of a criminal couple who are obviously losers (obvious echoes of Breathless and many other French new wave movies, and maybe a bit of the great recent Japanese film, Oasis). Also, the plot is very spare and credible, a few surprising twists but they all make sense, unlike so many other recent thrillers from the U.S. and France. A totally strong movie. Who is this guy Spielman? I hope he makes more films. My fear, of course, is that Revanche will be remade as an American movie - and it could, possibly, with luck, be a good American movie, translated to the streets of Chicago or something. But it could also lose everything, become a 3rd-rate Bonnie & Clyde - a solid adult drama trashed up as an action flick.