Intoxication

France

1998

5 Min

Color

French

Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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During the shooting of I Stand Alone, Noé films his friend Stéphane Drouot, the director of cult movie “Star Suburb” in its kitchen slicing in poetic sections a long sentence four minutes, all in a single shot. Naturalness, brittleness and the conviction that he reveals, changes the vision that one could have of Suburb Star, adding to his avant-gardist dimension (the graphic aspect of film is bluffing) a feeling of frank nostalgie —Repérages n°44

Director

Gaspar Noé

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