I Stand Alone (1998) ( Seul contre tous )

I Stand Alone (1998) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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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 ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

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:

France, 1980. A retired horsemeat butcher fights to survive. After abandoning his teenage daughter, and hoping to rebuild a new life, he moves to Lille with his pregnant lover. He doesn't love her. He likes even less living at his mother-in-law's apartment. Quickly his hopes turn into bitterness, and this bitterness into obsessions. Violence explodes. The man returns to Paris and tries to restart his life again. He counts on his luck to find work and new friends. But both are hard to find. In this city, like elsewhere, living is a selfish act. Alone against everyone the ex-butcher stays in the hotel room where many years ago his daughter was conceived. Without a penny and with the sole company of a gun charged with three bullets, he doesn't see clearly what the purpose of his life is. His stomach cries for food. His brain orders him to take revenge. And his heart...

The Butcher (known from Noe's short film Carne) has done some time in jail after beating up the guy who tried to seduce his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter. Now he wants to start a new life. He leaves his daughter in an institution and moves to Lille suburbs with his mistress. She promised him a new butcher shop. She lied. The butcher decides to go back to Paris and find his daughter.

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.

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