I Stand Alone

1998 [FRENCH]

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 81% · 25 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 81% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 27388 27.4K

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Plot summary

After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, The Butcher wants to start life anew. He institutionalizes his daughter and moves to the Lille suburbs with his mistress, who promises him a new butcher shop. Learning that she lied, The Butcher returns to Paris to find his daughter.

Director

Gaspar Noé Photo
Gaspar Noé

Top cast

Philippe Nahon Photo
Philippe Nahon as Le Boucher
Arlette Balkis Photo
Arlette Balkis as Femme Mourante
Denis Falgoux Photo
Denis Falgoux as Deuxieme Boucher
Frankie Pain Photo
Frankie Pain as Sa Maitresse
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742.13 MB
1280*480
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
25 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 6
1.41 GB
1920*720
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
25 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 33

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by m_shamoo 7 / 10

Painful

Man, that movie was intense. I saw Irreverisible a while back and just discovered this film. As I tried to rate it I have to admit that if a film effects you in the way this movie just did then there is something to it. I know many people who would be disgusted by this film and simply say they did not like it, it was a "bad movie." The reality is that every movie doesn't have to be uplifting and make you feel good. All I know is that I feel extremely alone and weird at the moment, independent of anything going on in my life. In that way, I think the film did its job. To an extent, the main character is so sick and jaded that one doesn't exactly relate to him or identify with the character. At the same time however, for those of us that don't experience life as rosy and joyous all the time, there is an element of utter pessimism that one can relate to. In a traditional sense, not that much actually happens in this movie. The majority of it is filled with an inner dialogue and scenes of people just sitting around.I suppose it's odd for me to say that I like this film, but as I said, I think it did its job. The soundtrack was well done and the acting was thoroughly convincing. If you can deal with "depressing" and disturbing movies, I'd give I Stand Alone a shot. If not, rent Big and go to bed feeling nostalgic and hopeful about the future.
Reviewed by Xstal 7 / 10

Bitter & Twisted...

Following the life of the most disaffected, disillusioned, alienated, resentful, hostile and unbalanced middle aged man that has ever carried an image on a screen - but is he alone, and can all the factors he believes brought him to this nadir of all nadirs actually be correct, that there was little or nothing to be done, with the cards he was dealt as a child, the hands he had to play during his formative years, set in stone, to fatefully be performed in only one way, as unsatisfying an existence that could ever have walked this earth, beaten by the state, society, its structures and its rules.You won't come away with a smile on your face, or at least not until you realise that there's always someone worse off than yourself. A painful watch at times, but it comes with the director's territory.
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