Carne

France

1991

39 Min

Color

2.35:1

French

Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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CAST Philippe Nahon, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain, Hélène Testud

SOUND Olivier Le Vacon

Cannes (Semaine de la Critique): SACD Award, Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), Sundance

Synopsis

A butcher in Paris takes his revenge after his daughter is brutally attacked. –IMDb

Director

Baldheaded Franco-Argentine filmmaker Gaspar Noé has made some seriously disturbing films during his relatively short career. He has also won several critical awards and festival acclaim for each of his works. Noé made his first film in 1991 with the short Carne, an introduction to the character of the Butcher, played by Philippe Nahon. An angry man, the Butcher seeks revenge on whoever hurt his disabled daughter. After working as an actor, cinematographer, writer, and director on some other projects, Noé made his first feature film, I Stand Alone, continuing the story of the Butcher after he does time in jail and abandons his daughter. In 2002 he received major public notice and outrage with the controversial Irréversible, mostly due to the much-publicized eight-minute rape scene. Starring real-life married couple Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel, the film is a brutal look at male violence shown in reverse chronological order. —allmovie guide

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stoyanov

8Feb12

At times disgusting, Noé's Carne is an otherwise haunting, disturbing, and thought-provoking exploration of a butcher's life prior to, and following an impulsive act of violence. The scene with Umberto Tozzi's Ti amo on the radio has become of my all-time favorites. http://youtu.be/tP-klcAPIcA

Hazel Hills

18Aug11

Had me at "A butcher." JK it had me at REVENGE.

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Catarina Gomes

1Aug11

Another very graphic deliverance of violence from Noé. Philippe Nahon is perfect. He has the expression of a mean son of a bitch so it isn't hard to believe he had a bad life. The horse scene is horrible and it's difficult to excuse Noé for that, but ultimately it works like a wake up call. That's what making cinema should be, in part, about. If things are happening, they should be brought to the public's awareness.

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VENIMOS LOS JODIMOS Y NOS FUIMOS

17Feb11

Un interesante debut de Gaspar Noé, en el que se hacen presentes los temas y el peculiar estilo que caracterizará toda su obra posterior (la corrosiva mirada acerca de la sociedad, brutales situaciones de violencia, esquizofrenicos movimientos de camara, una edición verdaderamente salvaje, etc.) La cinta debe considerarse el inicio de una trilogia, ya que por vez primera, Noé introduce al brutal personaje del carnicero (interpretado magistralmente por Philip Nahon) y aqui, se revelan los hechos anteriores a Solo contra todos. Además de poder considerarse un ensayo previo de su futura Irreversible (la anecdota es bastante similar) si se toma en cuenta que se trató de su opera prima, no deja de admirarse el dominio tecnico del que hace gala el joven debutante, Como la practica totalidad de el cine del controvertido realizador, este no es un film para todos los gustos (ni mucho menos, para todas las sensibilidades), pero lo que no se puede negar es la coherencia tematica y narrativa de Noé, quién, con cada nueva realización, no ha dejado de sorprender con la misantropa visión del mundo que maneja en cada uno de sus films.

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