I Stand Alone ( Seul contre tous )

I Stand Alone (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Seul contre tous
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Catalonian International Film Festival
Stockholm Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
91 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1998 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Gaspar Noe

Written By:
Gaspar Noe

Actors:
Philippe Nahon ..... The Butcher
Blandine Lenoir ..... His Daughter, Cynthia
Frankie Pain ..... His Mistress (as Frankye Pain)
Martine Audrain ..... His Mother-in-Law
Jean-François Rauger ..... Real Estate Agent
Guillaume Nicloux ..... Supermarket Manager
Olivier Doran ..... Narrator
Aïssa Djabri ..... Dr. Choukroun
Serge Faurie ..... Hospital Director
Paule Abecassis ..... Junkie
Stéphanie Sec ..... Female Hospital Patient
Arlette Balkis ..... Dying Lady
Frédéric Pfohl ..... Male Hospital Patient
Gil Bertharion Jr. ..... Bus Driver
Rado ..... Hotel Manager

Synopsis:

My life today is very simple, it's a losers life. The story of an ordinary man. Only today I am starting my life over. Yes, ladies and gentlemen. Today I reset the meter at zero.' France 1980. Returning to Paris with his life in tatters, a horse meat butcher wanders the unforgiving streets in a hopeless search for work. Consumed by anger, he rages bitterly against himself, his family and the bleak world around him. Only his gun and three bullets offer him a chance at revenge. Winner of the critic's prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, SEUL CONTRE TOUS is the powerful and stylish debut feature from the most commanding new voice in French cinema

In this French drama, Gaspar Noe, who won awards (Prix Georges Sadoul, Cannes Crix Week) for his 40-minute Carne (1991), continues where that film ended, beginning with a Carne recap: The Butcher (Philippe Nahon) narrates, telling how, as a war orphan working at 14, he opened his horsemeat butcher shop and fathered a mute, retarded daughter. After the mother and daughter left for life in a Paris suburb, he served a prison term after an assault on someone he mistakenly believed had raped his daughter. The follow-up sequel, set in a Lille suburb, begins in 1980: Obese bar owner (Franjkyie Pain) is pregnant by The Butcher, who is unable to find work. The couple moves in with her mother, but he becomes irritated with the two women and goes to Paris where the humiliation of job-hunting and the sum total of futility and hopelessness triggers thoughts of what he might accomplish with his gun and his last three bullets. Shown at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.

A horse meat butcher's life and mind begins to breakdown as he lashes out against various factions of society while attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 22 August, 2008.

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