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With: Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain, Martine Audrain, Jean-Francois Rauger, Guillaume Nicloux, Olivier Doran, Aissa Djabri, Serge Faurie
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Written by: Gaspar Noé
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Directed by: Gaspar Noé
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MPAA Rating: Not Rated
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Language: French, with English subtitles
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Running Time: 93
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Date: 05/16/1998
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Butcher Ploy
By Jeffrey M. Anderson Written and directed by France's Gaspar Noe, I Stand Alone is a violent and disturbed movie about a jobless butcher (Philippe Nahon) who kills his pregnant wife and plots to kill others. The movie occasionally uses a startling effect: a skip-frame swish-pan accompanied by a gunshot sound. It also uses a William Castle-type device that gives audiences 30 seconds to leave just before the gruesome ending. I Stand Alone does its best to get inside the butcher's head, and is similar to Taxi Driver and Clean, Shaven, but it lacks the honesty of those movies. It seems too gimmicky, and it is very hard to watch.
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