I Stand Alone

I Stand Alone

  • Director: Gaspar Noé
  • Countries of origin: France
  • Language: French
  • Release date: February 17, 1999
  • Sound mix: Dolby SR
  • Aspect ratio: 2.66 : 1
  • Also known as: Один проти всіх
  • "Stand Alone" is a drama film directed by Gaspar Noé and starring Philippe Nahon and Blandine Lenoir.
    The film mainly tells the story of a 50-year-old horse meat dealer who has a criminal record in order to protect his daughter. The film was released on May 16, 1998.
    The film won Best Director at the Cannes International Film Festival in France in 1998, Best Film and Best Screenplay at the Spanish Film Festival and other awards.

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    Details

    • Release date February 17, 1999
    • Filming locations France
    • Production companies Canal+, Les Cinémas de la Zone, Love Streams Productions

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $6,955

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $6,955

    Gross worldwide

    $6,955

    Movie reviews

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    • By Norene 2022-10-16 20:13:33

      There is a companionship that transcends ethics

      Another work of heavy style and sharp analysis.

      He was never a man favored by fate.
      The war made him an orphan
      , and he lost his wife
      and only had an autistic mute girl, who lived with each other.
      Day after day,
      year after year,
      life for this father and daughter
      is nothing but a one-man show with a pale and boring plot.

      Until
      the impermanent life forced him to go down a road of no return,
      so he no longer backed down,
      so he no...

    • By Etha 2022-10-16 19:43:05

      To live is egoism

      French-Argentine director Gaspar Nou. His guts and awareness shocked the world. "I'm Hard" is his first feature film. Its power of shock and the malevolence that provokes viewers is not under "Irrevocable" (also by this dude). At first glance, the film seems to be full of sympathy for the underprivileged, but unexpectedly it is a trap carefully set by the director. It is not a social indictment of a tragic fate, but a cruel act of exposing the scars of human nature. It's a blatant morbid...

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    • By Conner 2023-09-24 23:12:23

      It's like a video for an autobiographical novel, a monologue where the speaker cannot be found, and the story goes further and further. It's too much to test the old man's acting skills, and the switch between YY and the real in the final small room is probably the driving force to turn the text into an influence, even if you are sleepy for an hour, the last ten minutes are worth...

    • By Braden 2023-09-24 17:26:49

      Stream-of-consciousness and monologue-based film noir. The form is unique, the experiment is very strong, and the thinking is very...

    • By Isabel 2023-09-10 16:34:31

      "I'm a sad dick, and in order to earn respect, I have to be strong all the time; you're my daughter, and I'll make you a woman." I've watched a lot of films about midlife crisis recently, compared to my classmate Manas from the alcohol program, This piece of impotence anxiety is the most serious. It's just that the male protagonist is a born loser, his life is in crisis, he fails to fight against the society, and he can't get revenge on the society. Moral rotten, lonely and world-weary, just...

    • By Ettie 2023-07-18 17:49:23

      la solitude NE VAUT RIEN...

    • By Wendy 2023-07-14 07:29:55

      At least you still have a gun. The babble talking to himself is really LOSER, and it...

    Movie plot

    The wife of a middle-aged horse meat dealer (Philippe Nahon) runs away from home shortly after the birth of his daughter Cynthia, and he runs the shop alone and raises his mentally handicapped daughter (Blandine Lenoir). One day he beat a gangster who tried to molest his daughter and was sentenced to prison. After being released from prison, the horse meat dealer befriends the coffee shop owner (Frankie Pain) and moves to the suburbs,...
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    Movie quotes

    • The Butcher: [after an unsuccessful job interview at a slaughterhouse] What? A fairy treating me like that? Tell me I'm dreaming! As if I didn't know his wife dropped him the day she caught him having his sphincter rimmed by an employee. All the horsemeat butchers in Paris know that little Mr. Blanchat likes cock. He lets his ass do the blow jobs. And who's he to be so proud? I hear his father was of the same ilk. I wonder why there are so many queers among the rich. Must be their lack of strenuous effort. They lounge around doing jack shit and their genes grow soft and degenerate. Yes indeed, that's the way it is. France Fruitcake, not Horsemeat! Bullshit liar! I'm ashamed this guy is French.

    • The Butcher: Feels strange to be back in this room where my daughter was conceived. What a great fuck her mother was. But if I knew she was going to lay a runt on me I'd have never spurted inside her. But that's how it goes. I let the jissom flow. And today my daughter exists.

    • [MORALITY, in huge block letters, is displayed against a black screen at opening of film]

      [cut to a man holding court, talking to another patron while sitting at a table in a bar]

      Every Man his Moral: You know what Morality is? I'll tell you what it is. Morality is made for those who own it. The rich. And you know who's always right? The rich. And the poor pay the price.

      [cut to the word JUSTICE displayed and then back to bar]

      Every Man his Moral: You want to see my Morality?

      Captive bar patron: Yeah.

      Every Man his Moral: Yeah?

      Captive bar patron: Yeah.

      Every Man his Moral: Sure you won't regret it?

      Captive bar patron: I don't know.

      Every Man his Moral: I think it's gonna scare you. Take a look.

      [Pulls out and displays an automatic pistol]

      Every Man his Moral: That's Morality for you. You know why I carry this around? Huh? Because the guy in blue who shows off his Morality, dig? He's got the upper hand, dig? He and his fucking Justice. But I... But I... Here's my Justice.

      [bar patron is obviously disturbed but is trying hard not to show his discomfort]

      Every Man his Moral: Whether you're right or whether you're wrong. Same difference, friend.

      [He finally stops waving the pistol and with a sense of satisfaction puts it back beneath his leather jacket]