I Stand Alone

2004 • 88 minutes

About this movie

The debut feature from Gaspar Noe, director of the controversial IRREVERSIBLE, just as potent and confronting. I STAND ALONE is set in France in 1980 and tells the story of THE BUTCHER a retired horsemeat peddler, locked into a loveless marriage with his nagging, pregnant wife and a hateful mother-in-law. Living in their cramped apartment and taunted by the women every moment of the day, THE BUTCHER is poised on the edge, seething with bitterness and hatred for a world he must endure, ready to explode. And then one day...he does.© 1998 Love Streams Productions