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Blood of the Beasts

Le sang des bêtes

France

1949

20 Min
Black and White
French
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DIR Georges Franju

PROD Paul Legros

SCR Georges Franju

DP Marcel Fradetal

CAST Georges Hubert, Nicole Ladmiral

MUSIC Joseph Kosma

Synopsis

An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the nearby slaughterhouses. Describes the fate of the animals and that of the workers in graphic detail. —IMDb

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Georges Franju

Georges Franju (12 April 1912 – 5 November 1987) was a French filmmaker. He was born in Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine.

Before working in French cinema, Franju had several different jobs. These included working for an insurance company and in a noodle factory. Franju was also briefly in the military in Algeria and was discharged in 1932. On his return, Franju studied to become a set designer and later created backdrops for music halls including Casino de Paris and the Folles Bergère.

In the mid-thirties, Franju and Henri Langlois met through Franju’s twin brother Jacques Franju. As well as creating the 16 mm short film Le Métro, Langois and Franju also started a short-lived film magazine and created a film club called Le Cercle du Cinema with 500 francs he borrowed from Langlois’ parents. The club showed silent films from their own collections followed by an informal debate about them amongst members. From Le Cercle du Cinema, Franju and Langlois founded the Cinématheque… read more

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film_lies101

7Jan12

meat is murder

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Drew Boggemes

6Apr11

Blood of the Beasts is a wryly disturbing, would-be surrealist masterpiece. I say "would-be" on account of the painfully subjective, propaganda-like voice-over narration, which renders the potentially affective atmosphere and imagery as trite and cheap, almost like a prototypical PETA commercial.

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the scariest of all time

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Georges Franju and the Terrible Waking Dream

By Daniel Kasman on April 10, 2008

Above: Edith Scob in Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face (1960). The films of Georges Franju are full of sleepwalkers, automatons, and prisoners

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Blood of the Beasts

By Chuck Vollers on February 26, 2011

Georges Franju’s 1949 slaughterhouse documentary. Perhaps even better than EYES WITHOUT A FACE, regrettably the only other Franju I’ve been able to see. I grew up on somewhat of a farm so I wasn’t…  read review

Graphic poetry

By Braden Vallenè​res on March 30, 2010

Before watching Blood of the Beasts, I had read about it and knew that it was a documentary about slaughterhouses in Paris. I also knew that it was quite graphic, yet very poetic and beautiful…  read review

UNA JOYA NO APTA PARA CARNIVOROS

By VENIMOS LOS JODIMOS Y NOS FUIMOS on October 29, 2009

Supongamos que por alguna razon, ya sea de tipo estetico o por salud, te ves obligado a seguir una dieta, y, sin embargo, esta muy cabrona la tentacion de irte a tragar unos buenos tacos de buche…  read review

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