Seul Contre Tous (I Stand Alone) (One Against All)

Seul Contre Tous (I Stand Alone) (One Against All) (1998)

  • 86% of critics liked it
    (21 reviews)

  • 81% of users liked it
    (5,748 ratings)

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… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
Gaspar Noe
Genres
Drama, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense
In Theaters
May 16, 1998 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Gabe Leibowitz, eCinemaCenter.com

    Vomit.

  • David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

    ...I Stand Alone will not easily be forgotten - and in this day and age, that's an incredibly rare thing.

  • Jeremy Heilman, MovieMartyr.com

    Certainly, there are aesthetic pleasures in I Stand Alone, but they don't redeem the depraved heart that beats at the center of the film.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Coxxie M


    I have to find a job soon but i cant because it is the law that you make sandwich wif smile on your face and i cant do that because making sandwich make me more miserable and i hate people i cook it for and i also want to fuck their children i smell my wifes putrid runny crushed… More

  • familiar s


    I didn't give a flying fuck about Irreversible, and considering how terrible it was, I was hesitant to check this one out. Thankfully, it wasn't as bad as I'd feared. Noe fantastically displays the feelings of a common man and what one has to suffer in day-to-day life.… More

  • Carlos M


    The deranged horse butcher from Carne is now struggling to regain any control of his life after spending many years in jail. This is a fantastic story, incredibly disturbing and heart-wrenching, with an amazing performance by Philippe Nahon and an absolutely brilliant final act.

  • Arash X


    Has some similarities to Taxi Driver but it's much darker & much more twisted

  • Pierluigi P


    Intense, visceral, raw. hard to digest and yet interesting existentialist tale of a god's lonely man, a troubledmind french butcher who will take what he conciders fair, no matter who falls on the way. director Gaspár Noe homage to Godard and Scorsese. not for the faint-hearted.

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