CARNAGES
CARNAGE |
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Director:
Delphine Gleize
Screenplay: Delphine Gleize
Cast:
Carlotta: Chiara Mastroianni
Alicia: Angela Molina
Betty: Lio
Jeanne: Lucia Sanchez
Rosie: Esther Gorintin
Lucie: Maryline Even
Alexis: Clovis Cornillac
Jacques: Jacques Gamblin
Awards: Youth Prize, Cannes Film Festival (2003)
Running time: 130 minutes
Year of production: France - 2002
Rating: Not rated (brief sexual content and nudity)
Gauge: 35mm Cinemascope, DVD (color)
Language: French and Spanish
Distributor: Wellspring Media
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“Ms.
Gleize, through a series of oblique, half-comic scenes
and meticulous, rhyming visual compositions, offers up
an elegant, discursive essay on carnality and carnivorousness
-- on sex, death, meat and the ravening hunger for companionship.”
A.O. Scott | New York Times |
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A wildly original
story that defies classification, Carnage traces the
bizarre, often magical, effects that a 1,000-pound bull has
on a disparate group of characters. Romero the bull is killed
after a tragic bullfight, and his body is cut into pieces
and distributed, healing and changing the lives of the individuals
who receive these gifts. The bull forces these engaging characters
to confront themselves. Winnie, a five-year-old epileptic
child, gets one of Romero’s bones for her great Dane.
A struggling actress sells the bone to Winnie’s parents.
A scientist and his pregnant wife receive the bull’s
eyes. A mother offers the horns to her son, an eccentric taxidermist.
A Spanish woman dines toro en rioja in a restaurant…
The stories go on and on, with unexpected twists and great
humor. As the film develops, the viewer discovers that beyond
the bizarre and seemingly unrelated stories, deep bonds exist
among the characters. There are no left-overs after this blessed
banquet, and no more loneliness either, as the circulation
of the bull’s body parts ties together random stories
and individual pathos. A colorful cinematography adds pungency
to this clever first film.
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