Cannibal love - Mangiata viva

LauraPalmer

TOP film. are you hungry? are you sick? are you begging for a break? are you sweet? are you fresh? are you strung up by the wrists? / we want the young blood / are you fracturing? are you torn at the seams? would you do anything? flea-bitten motheaten? / we suck young blood / won’t let the creeping ivy won’t let the nervous bury me our veins are thin our rivers poisoned we want the sweet meats we want the young blood

Peter

to convincingly pull off a wordless seduction in a film is rare. to pull it off twice is astonishing. that the resultant outcomes devolve into a pair of the most disturbing scenes committed to film is nothing short of brilliant...

Dale Wittig

The first time I watched this film, the only other audience, in a small screening room of the Lumiere Theater on California Street near Polk, was a small group of late middle aged, perhaps elderly, Chinese women. I foolishly assumed that they had wandered into the wrong picture, but they stayed through to the end and appeared more than satisfied with the artistry they had witnessed.

Call me Drella

Cannibalism has not been such sexier. The irresistible hunger of blood with Gallo and Dalle..

Jose Sarmiento Hinojosa

One of my favorite films ever. And my definite favorite for this millenium. The mix of genres and the slow pace in general hypnotized me in levels beyond my comprehension.

El Biffo

Claire Denis' films are generally disturbing and/or haunting. This one is bloody gruesome. Gallo is spot on as a sexually demented predator, but not quite so plausible as a doctor. I almost turned it off, but the mesmerizing images by longtime collaborator Agnes Godard kept me glued. On the bright side, there's a cute puppy, and a brief (no lines) cameo by the lovely Alice Houri (Nenette from NENETTE AND BONI).

Ghostman

A chilling and truly disturbing film. A total 180 from the warmth and comfort of 35 Shots of Rum, which she made after. Vincent Gallo is appropriately creepy here. A vampire film embedded in realism. A frightening portrait of sexual violence, lust steeped in crazed brutality, and love gone horribly awry. And the ending is brilliantly anti-climatic. Denis is a master filmmaker. *bows*

HKFanatic

In Denis' 2001 existential horror film (one whose influence can be felt as recently as "Under the Skin"), the creeping death of Nosferatu is reimagined for a new century in Vincent Gallo's sunken-eyed, somnambulant stare. The result is almost too effective. But perhaps what's most shocking about a film as seemingly grim and nihilistic as "Trouble Every Day" is how much it has to tell us about unconditional love.