Seul contre tous (1998)
Country: FR
Technical: col/scope 93m
Director: Gaspar Noé
Cast: Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankye Pain
Synopsis:
An unemployed butcher beats up the woman he has made pregnant and leaves for Paris to try his fortune and seek out his institutionalized daughter. He meets only old friends as badly off as himself or prejudice from prospective employers. He resolves to turn against the society which has betrayed him and ultimately unite with his daughter in an incestuous last stand..
Review:
For an hour and a half we are subjected to the embittered, barely coherent voiceover of a man so disgusted with himself and the world that he has turned his back on morality. As if being forced into his company were not enough, we are also bludgeoned by a directorial style marked by gunshot-punctuated whip-pans and zooms, foreshadowing the violence that never actually comes. In short, it can be entertaining in the manner of Man Bites Dog but also a lot more depressing than Taxi Driver.
Country: FR
Technical: col/scope 93m
Director: Gaspar Noé
Cast: Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankye Pain
Synopsis:
An unemployed butcher beats up the woman he has made pregnant and leaves for Paris to try his fortune and seek out his institutionalized daughter. He meets only old friends as badly off as himself or prejudice from prospective employers. He resolves to turn against the society which has betrayed him and ultimately unite with his daughter in an incestuous last stand..
Review:
For an hour and a half we are subjected to the embittered, barely coherent voiceover of a man so disgusted with himself and the world that he has turned his back on morality. As if being forced into his company were not enough, we are also bludgeoned by a directorial style marked by gunshot-punctuated whip-pans and zooms, foreshadowing the violence that never actually comes. In short, it can be entertaining in the manner of Man Bites Dog but also a lot more depressing than Taxi Driver.
Country: FR
Technical: col/scope 93m
Director: Gaspar Noé
Cast: Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankye Pain
Synopsis:
An unemployed butcher beats up the woman he has made pregnant and leaves for Paris to try his fortune and seek out his institutionalized daughter. He meets only old friends as badly off as himself or prejudice from prospective employers. He resolves to turn against the society which has betrayed him and ultimately unite with his daughter in an incestuous last stand..
Review:
For an hour and a half we are subjected to the embittered, barely coherent voiceover of a man so disgusted with himself and the world that he has turned his back on morality. As if being forced into his company were not enough, we are also bludgeoned by a directorial style marked by gunshot-punctuated whip-pans and zooms, foreshadowing the violence that never actually comes. In short, it can be entertaining in the manner of Man Bites Dog but also a lot more depressing than Taxi Driver.