Seul Contre Tous (I Stand Alone) (One Against All) (1998)
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86% of critics liked it
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81% of users liked it
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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 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. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
- Directed By
- Gaspar Noe
- Written By
- Gaspar Noe
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense
- In Theaters
- May 16, 1998 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Gabe Leibowitz, eCinemaCenter.com
Vomit.
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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.
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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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Cast
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Philippe Nahon
as The Butcher
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Frankye Pain
as His Mistress
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Blandine Lenoir
as His Daughter Cynthia
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Martine Audrain
as Mother-in-Law