I Stand Alone
- Original title
- Seul contre tous
- Year
- 1998
- Running time
- 88 min.
- Country
France
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Philippe Nahon
- Blandine Lenoir
- Frankie Pain
- Martine Audrain
- Aïssa Djabri
- Jean-François Rauger
- Guillaume Nicloux
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- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama. Thriller | 1980s. Crime. Sequel
- Movie Groups
- New French Extremity
- Synopsis
- France, 1980. A retired horsemeat butcher fights to survive. After abandoning his teenage daughter, and hoping to rebuild a new life, he moves to Lille with his pregnant lover. He doesn't love her. He likes even less living at his mother-in-law's apartment. Quickly his hopes turn into bitterness, and this bitterness into obsessions. Violence explodes. The man returns to Paris and tries to restart his life again. He counts on his luck to find work and new friends. But both are hard to find. In this city, like elsewhere, living is a selfish act. Alone against everyone the ex-butcher stays in the hotel room where many years ago his daughter was conceived. Without a penny and with the sole company of a gun charged with three bullets, he doesn't see clearly what the purpose of his life is. His stomach cries for food. His brain orders him to take revenge. And his heart...
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- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1998: Sitges Fantasy Film Festival: Best Screenplay
- Critics' reviews
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"Debuts don't come more audacious than this effort by Gaspar Noe, a filmmaker obviously determined to shock - and he achieves his goal."
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