Dominique Hennequin

Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Oscar®-nominated, erotic masterpiece erupted on the scene with such a slick new style that a whole movement was named around it (alongside the work of Luc Besson and Leos Carax): Cinéma du look. Featuring a scintillating and unforgettably fierce debut by Béatrice Dalle.

Known for his suave, bourgeois characters, Michel Piccoli underwent a brutish and animalistic transformation in Claude Faraldo’s provocative cult film, which dispenses entirely with dialogue. Comprising grunts and gestures, Themroc is an antiestablishment battle cry against society’s conformism.