I Stand Alone

Name: I Stand Alone
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: September 27, 1998
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Aïssa Djabri, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain, Guillaume Nicloux, Jean-François Rauger

1998

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: September 27, 1998 | Not Rated

Starring: Aïssa Djabri, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain, Guillaume Nicloux, Jean-François Rauger, Martine Audrain, Olivier Doran, Philippe Nahon, Serge Faurie, Zaven

Summary: A horse meat butcher's life and mind begins to break down as he lashes out against various factions of society while attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

Director: Gaspar Noé

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 93 min

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

A masterpiece of some kind, though clearly destined to be controversial and contested everywhere it shows—not only for the sexist, racist, and homophobic rage it exposes but also for its brilliant confrontational style. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

I Stand Alone uses a cannon ball to shatter the psychological horror at the heart of human society. Read full review

Wesley Morris

I Stand Alone has the ghastly stink of a rotting corpse. You can smell the cess as clearly as you can see the blood vessels striking like lightning around the pupils of its malefactor's eyes. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

Strange and unsettling as it is, Noe's clarity of vision makes his film ignite. Like a slammed door or a scream of anger, it slaps you awake. Read full review

Bob Graham

I Stand Alone ("Seul contre tous" in French) is a portrait of a pathetic soul, but it is also a cautionary tale. The butcher cannot be dismissed as a monster, nor is this a creep show. Something like the butcher's story can be found almost every day in newspaper crime reports. Read full review

Stephen Holden

The movie's triumph -- if that's what it is -- is in the force of its assault. It takes one man's unbearable truth and bashes us in the skull with it. Read full review

Lawrence Toppman

This pretentious mediocrity from writer-director Gaspar Noe is "Taxi Driver" without depth or any humanizing of the main character. [25 Oct 1998, p.4F]

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