I Stand Alone
I Stand Alone
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Gaspar NoéForgatókönyvíró:
Gaspar NoéOperatőr:
Dominique ColinSzereplők:
Philippe Nahon, Guillaume Nicloux, Olivier Doran, Blandine Lenoir, Nicolas Jouhet, Gérard Ortega, Frankie Pain, Arlette Balkis, Laurent Aknin (több)Tartalmak(1)
In this French drama, Gaspar Noe, who won awards 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. (forgalmazó hivatalos szövege)
(több)Recenziók (4)
A Taxisofőr új francia extremity változata. Pesszimista hangvételű monológban, zavaros portré egy filozofáló őrültről a vágóhídról, aki - finoman szólva - elégedetlen az életével. Hogy Gaspar Noé miért jutott el ezektől az élvezhetően dumás, erősen őszinte és lázadó vallomásoktól az olyan tartalom nélküli vizuális önkielégülésekig, mint az Enter the Void? Mert imádja Kubrick 2001: Űrodüsszeia filmet? Jajj! Ezzel a játékfilmes debütálással megmutatta Ferrara-nak mit tud, és elérte Scorsese-t! Ui.: Ajánlom még a "film előtti" Carnefilmet, ahol a hentes története kezdődik.
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One of the most intense cinematic experiences ever and undoubtedly the most intense Noé. Irreversible was OK but offered nothing deeper than those two shocking scenes, Enter the Void was visually transcendent and overall terribly immersive, but out of all Noé's work, I Stand Alone wins out for me. Few films can make me sit up in my seat in such a way and few films inspire in me such disgust for the main character (I can take a lot, really, but I can say quite bluntly that I wasn’t far from throwing up during one internal monologue). The main question is to what extent the main anti-hero is "abnormal" and out of touch with the reality of "decent people", because as much as I hate to speak for anyone else, I can't shake the feeling that just about everyone has such peppery inner monologues from time to time. There are a few extremes that (thankfully!) stray from anything that can be considered normal and human (I swear on my dying breath now that I would never shag my own daughter), plus this film convinced me that even French can sound really nasty (as pure and beautiful a language as I had previously thought it was). I'm fascinated by the intensity, the explicitness, and the fact that Noé doesn't pull his punches even a little bit. But the experience was revolting and painful.
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A flawless performance by Philippe Nahon that irradiates anger and hatred. I Stand Alone is one of the least pleasant films I’ve ever seen. I’m really not sure how to approach it. I must watch it again.
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A hard-to-digest manifesto of hatred towards everything and everyone. During the whole film, we hear the uninterrupted monologue of the main character, who is determined to have a fight with the entire world at any cost. Gaspar Noé doesn’t hesitate to touch on themes like nationalism, homophobia or incest, teasing the audience to see how much they can endure, even exhorting us, using a timer for a few seconds, to leave the screening before reaching the final scene. The latter, however, is not that shocking after all that has preceded, and doesn’t tear the viewer apart. I can’t totally figure out to what extent Noé’s violent charade was self-serving; therefore I reserve a potentially higher ranking for a possible second screening. If only I make up my mind and go for it.
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