Bullhead (2011)
(Rundskop)
Country: BEL/NL
Technical: col/2.35:1 129m
Director: Michaël R. Roskam
Cast: Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeroen Perceval, Jeanne Dandoy, Barbara Sarafian
Synopsis:
Condemned since childhood to take hormone supplements, ox-like Jacky finds that his emotional journey's endpoint coincides with the unravelling of a doping racket in the meat industry he supplies.
Review:
Subtly enmeshed as its different plot strands are, Roskam's film, which in many respects resembles a Jacques Audiard work, delivers a powerful climactic punch, helped by Schoenaerts's bovine performance. Steeped in the practice of injecting growth hormones into cattle all his life, he nevertheless reneges on a deal with the criminals who supply him when an investigating police officer winds up dead: our loyalties are thus divided until a flashback puts us more firmly behind our principal character. Still, there are no easy choices in this world, and no heroes either.
(Rundskop)
Country: BEL/NL
Technical: col/2.35:1 129m
Director: Michaël R. Roskam
Cast: Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeroen Perceval, Jeanne Dandoy, Barbara Sarafian
Synopsis:
Condemned since childhood to take hormone supplements, ox-like Jacky finds that his emotional journey's endpoint coincides with the unravelling of a doping racket in the meat industry he supplies.
Review:
Subtly enmeshed as its different plot strands are, Roskam's film, which in many respects resembles a Jacques Audiard work, delivers a powerful climactic punch, helped by Schoenaerts's bovine performance. Steeped in the practice of injecting growth hormones into cattle all his life, he nevertheless reneges on a deal with the criminals who supply him when an investigating police officer winds up dead: our loyalties are thus divided until a flashback puts us more firmly behind our principal character. Still, there are no easy choices in this world, and no heroes either.
(Rundskop)
Country: BEL/NL
Technical: col/2.35:1 129m
Director: Michaël R. Roskam
Cast: Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeroen Perceval, Jeanne Dandoy, Barbara Sarafian
Synopsis:
Condemned since childhood to take hormone supplements, ox-like Jacky finds that his emotional journey's endpoint coincides with the unravelling of a doping racket in the meat industry he supplies.
Review:
Subtly enmeshed as its different plot strands are, Roskam's film, which in many respects resembles a Jacques Audiard work, delivers a powerful climactic punch, helped by Schoenaerts's bovine performance. Steeped in the practice of injecting growth hormones into cattle all his life, he nevertheless reneges on a deal with the criminals who supply him when an investigating police officer winds up dead: our loyalties are thus divided until a flashback puts us more firmly behind our principal character. Still, there are no easy choices in this world, and no heroes either.