Focus on: Gaspar Noé

I Stand Alone

Seul contre tous

Gaspar Noé’s debut feature offers a bleak, grotesque vision of France.

  • Director

    Gaspar Noé

  • With

    Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain

  • France 1998. 93min

  • 35mm

  • Certificate

    18

  • English subtitles

The figure of The Butcher (Nahon) from Noé’s mid-length film Carne returns, and his desperate attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter only exacerbate his rage-filled and hateful mentality. The Butcher’s voiceover monologue and Noé’s savage images combine to make up a portrait of hate. This is Noé’s vision of France... and it’s not a pretty one.

Contains scenes of explicit sex, violent language and graphic violence that some viewers may find distressing.

35mm print courtesy of the Sundance Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

See screenings of Carne.