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92 min | France | 35 mm
main programme
credits
PROD: Les Cin�mas de la Zone
SALES: Celluloid Dreams
SCENARIO: Gaspar No�
CAMERA: Gaspar No�
EDITOR: Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Gaspar No�
SOUND: Olivier Le Vacon, Olivier Do Huu
MUSIC: Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Gaspar No�
CAST: Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankyie Pain, Martine Audrain
screenings
29 friday 16:00 Vera Groningen
30 saturday 22:30 Venster 1
01 monday 15:45 Path� 3
04 thursday 13:45 Path� 5
06 saturday 22:15 Maastricht Path� 5
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In Seul contre tous we again encounter the horse butcher from Carne, No�'s mid-length feature that was screened in Rotterdam in 1992. This unpleasant character, to put it mildly (played by the inimitable Philippe Nahon), has just completed a jail term for his violence against the man he suspected of raping his dumb and mentally retarded daughter. His butcher's shop in Lille has been shut and he is unemployed. Living with a bleached vixen and her mother, his dreams of a new shop soon fade. After a fight with the very pregnant blond he heads into the night, a pistol in his hand. From that moment on, we are surrendered to his monologue int�rieur, in which he points his arrows at a society that he no longer understands. The man is filled with hatred, vindictiveness, obscenities, racism, sexism and a lot of other politically incorrect ideas that sometimes seem to have a nightmarish and apparently inevitable logic. Without compassion for the spectator, but not without (black) humour, Seul contre tous drags the viewer to a strange happy ending. No� shot his provocative, powerfully cut film in Cinemascope like Carne. Before the dramatic climax dawns, sensitive spectators are given thirty seconds to leave the cinema.
Gaspar No�
Gaspard No� (1963, Buenos Aires) spent his youth �travelling between Argentina, Paris and New York. He studied philosophy and film at the Ecole Louis Lumi�re in Paris. He has written several scenarios and directed a number of short films.
films
Tintarella di luna (1985, short), Pulpe am�re (1987, short), Carne (1991, short), Seul contre tous (1998)
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