你想要这个eveni情色的报复ng? How about a nightcap of noir? If you have a taste for the savage, you might easily split the difference with “Fair Play.”

Debuting with a limited theatrical release Friday, Sept. 29, the thriller begins streaming on Netflix on Oct. 6. I recommend seeing director Chloe Domont’s melodrama on the big screen, where one may collectively mock, gasp and scream at the backstabbing travails of two lovers who should’ve known better than to conduct an affair at a pitiless hedge fund. Dollars trump hard-ons, every time.

Meet pretty Emily, a child-prodigy analyst played by Phoebe Dynevor (“Bridgerton”) who works side-by-steamy-side with handsome Luke, played by Alden Ehrenreich (“Oppenheimer,” “Han Solo”). Luke got his gig because he was “pushed on the firm” by a client. The two hotties aren’t supposed to be having an interoffice relationship, but of course that’s what makes it even hotter.

The film opens with their covert assignation, a make-out session where Luke performs a cinematically precedent-breaking sex act that will endear every woman in the audience. (Gosh, he must be a dream come true!)

Ah, but blood will be spilled more than once in this tightly wound reversal of fortunes. We are about to witness Emily and Luke fall into jagged little pieces over their mutual expectations for Wall Street success.

When Emily gets a promotion bump instead of Luke, every viewer’s stomach will tighten in dread. How much will she apologize for her success? How bitter and limp will he get? Even close readers of toxic masculinity and feminine masochism will not be prepared for how far these two take their lust and vendetta.

Domont’s cinematic artistry — and it must be noted, the innovativesoundtrackby Brian Mcomber — made the debut of “Fair Play” at Sundance and subsequent screening at the Toronto International Film Festival a 2023 sensation. Netflix spent a cool$20 millionto grab the brass ring, and it’s gotta be the biggest investment they’ve made in a feminist revenge fantasy.

At first, Emily seems oblivious to Luke’s incel-type ploys to undermine her — but once she catches himin flagranteburning down both their futures, it’s game on. The two actors don’t have much grown-up sexual chemistry to begin with — more like “Young Adult Cutie-Pies” than seasoned lovers — but, man, when they despise each other, they don’t hold back.

Despite his posturing, Luke craves a daddy’s love more than a woman’s. He and Emily both covet the praise of the firm’s president, Campbell. Played by Eddie Marsan (“The Winter King”), the veteran character actor tops the youngsters in scene-stealing turns.

It’s Campbell’s epithet to Emily that defines the young analyst’s naïveté: When she falls into one of Luke’s emotional traps and loses a few million for the firm, he calls her a “dumb f— bitch.” Twice. (I bet that was the working title for this film — according to director Domont, her script is autobiographical. She was out to settle a score.)

One may look for a definitive noir ending in “Fair Play,” to no avail. The final act, while riveting, equivocates. Neither of these two lovers, both alike in indignity, are going to get away with anything, let alone justice. I would prefer the full damnation.

Correction:An earlier version of this review misspelled the director’s last name. It’s Chloe Domont.

Susie Brightis a freelance writer.