I Stand Alone

Philippe Nahon Director: Gaspar Noé Gaspar Noé

Overview

Gaspar Noe's I Stand Alone comes to DVD with a widescreen transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The French soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo. English subtitles are accessible. There are no supplemental materials of any consequence, but this Strand Releasing title should be worthwhile for any French film enthusiast.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/05/2001
UPC:	0712267990528
Original Release:	1998
Rating:	NR
Source:	Strand Home Video
Presentation:	[Letterbox]
Time:	1:33:00
Sales rank:	19,964

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Philippe Nahon	The Butcher
Frankye Pain	His Mistress
Blandine Lenoir	His Daughter Cynthia
Martine Audrain	Mother-in-Law

Technical Credits

Gaspar Noé

Gaspar Noé	Director,Producer,Screenwriter
Dominique Colin	Cinematographer
Lucile Hadzihalilovic	Editor
Olivier Dô Húu	Sound/Sound Designer
Olivier Le Vacon	Sound/Sound Designer

Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. Intro [:18]
2. Morality [1:35]
3. Prologue: Carne [3:25]
4. Contempt [6:24]
5. Death Opens No Doors [11:04]
6. Rage [11:35]
7. Flesh [13:20]
8. Respect [19:05]
9. My Daughter [18:53]
10. End Titles [3:13]

Menu

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Editorial Reviews

A grim portrait of disaffection and loneliness, Gaspar Noe's I Stand Alone is a movie clearly conceived to make a stir. With an armed, frustrated, and hate-filled time bomb at its center, it unabashedly recalls Taxi Driver, offering its own nihilistic spin on Martin Scorsese's masterpiece of urban anomie and redemption. For a feature debut, it's unbelievably daring. Noe doesn't shy away from sprucing up his familiar story with Godard-ian flourishes, including occasional intertitles, a torrent of offscreen narration, and even a warning to the audience to leave before the wrenching finale. A more jarring conceit is the frequent use of abrupt cuts and fast dollies, accompanied by gunshots on the soundtrack. Genuinely startling and somewhat misconceived, the distracting device nonetheless goes some way toward evoking the volatile mindset of the protagonist. The movie shines a light on the circumstances that breed fascist and racist impulses. As politics, it isn't terribly illuminating: Its depiction of underclass, xenophobic rage is shocking in its brutality but hardly revelatory in its insight. As a psychological interrogation, it's more compelling, plunging the viewer into the mind of a disturbed man without sugarcoating. It's this brazen willingness to shove something so repellent in its audience's face that makes I Stand Alone both a courageous movie and an unpleasant experience. Whether the movie is genuinely probing or merely preoccupied with provocation is up for debate. What's not is the movie's visceral impact: This unrelenting essay about a lumpen brute sticks with you, despite -- or perhaps because of -- its lacerating bleakness.

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