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I Stand Alone
I Stand Alone
Director:
Gaspar NoéGuión:
Gaspar NoéCámara:
Dominique ColinReparto:
Philippe Nahon, Guillaume Nicloux, Olivier Doran, Blandine Lenoir, Nicolas Jouhet, Gérard Ortega, Frankie Pain, Arlette Balkis, Laurent Aknin, Aïssa Djabri (más)Sinopsis(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. (texto oficial de la distribuidora)
(más)Reseñas (4)
Un manifiesto de odio a todo y a todos difícil de digerir. A lo largo de la película nos acompaña el monólogo ininterrumpido del protagonista, que quiere enfrentarse al mundo, cueste lo que cueste. Gaspar Noé no escatima en tocar temas que van desde el nacionalismo, la homofobia hasta el incesto, y juega a un desagradable juego sobre cuánto puede soportar el espectador, incluso instándole a abandonar la proyección antes de la última escena, con un temporizador al final. Sin embargo, después de lo anterior, no es tan impactante como para dejar al espectador fuera de combate. No puedo decidir hasta qué punto la violenta farsa de Noé me pareció interesada, así que me guardaré la calificación más alta para una posible proyección futura. Si es que llego a verlo.
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Nueva versión francesa y extremada de Taxi Driver. En un pesimista monólogo de voz en off, un embrollado retrato de un loco filósofo que trabaja en un matadero y está, por decirlo suavemente, insatisfecho con su vida. ¿Por qué Gaspar Noé pasó de estas confesiones nutridamente parlanchinas, hondamente honestas y rebeldes, a las adicciones visuales sin contenido como Enter the Void? ¿Porque le gusta la obra espacial de Kubrick? ¡Eh! ¡Con este debut el largometraje consiguió borrar los ojos de Ferrara y llegar a Scorsese! P.S.: También recomiendo la «prepelícula» Carne, donde comienza la historia del carnicero.
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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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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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