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I Stand Alone
FRANCE · 1999

I Stand Alone

Gaspar Noé
paternal obsession social isolation disability and vulnerability urban alienation redemption and failure
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Synopsis

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.

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