Carne

How can you NOT love that loud, obnoxious *GONG* that comes with every intertitle?

I found it really darkly funny at times, and the loud sting that accompanies the intertitles or fast camera movements was hilarious. Plot-wise, it seems like nothing much really happens, but it's still a very good short by Noe.

If you like horses, this is the film for you!

I rather like the intense, aggressive editing and the deep, bellowing stabs and gunshot sounds that come with it. The intertitle approach might strike some as obnoxious or a bit funny (and there might be more of a darkly comedic feel here than in other Noé films), but man, I like it. Noé has only gotten better from here, but this is great. The Butcher is one grim motherfucker, and this is but a prologue to I Stand Alone.

Familiarity with SEUL CONTRE TOUS may have slightly diminished the power of this precursor, but even so, it manages to hit the viewer with a force very rarely found in short films. Although Noé of course is a filmmaker who very much divides audiences, for this viewer CARNE established that he is the real deal, a director who genuinely asks how cinema might be capable of something new.

It's not that every French film is about incest and slitting horse throats, it's just that every one I happen to see is about incest and slitting horse throats. Having lived in Japan for the past 18 years and eaten a cavalry unit's worth of raw horse, I can safely say it's tastier than sea cucumbers, cod sperm, and cow anus.

I would honestly recommend it only if you've seen "Seul Contre Tous" and want a little more background information than what's provided in the title sequence. Otherwise, start with some of his later work and move backwards.

Unique style with very well-arranged and forceful filming, sound and intertitles, and metaphorical scenes impressively suggesting a combination of sexual and violent impulses. Short but already enough to show clearly Gaspar Noé's ability to produce in the audience a strong psychological effect.

Disturbing, addressing the violence so raw.

I liked it, but it works much better when seen with its follow-up film, I Stand Alone (1998).

*windows XP error sound intensifies*

Edited in such a pretentious way...

Such an annoying presence from the director.

Yikes.

I was actually shaking when it was finished.

Stupid and pointless.

Horse. Blood. Butcher. Meat. Woman. Birth. Daughter. Rocking horse. Eternal circle. Perioid. Man. Knife. Attempt to kill. Jail. Internat. New woman. The End.

As a prologue to Noe's follow-up film "Seul Contre Teus", we get a inside view into the background story of "Le Boucher" (Also, briefly Irreversible). From the birth of his mute daughter to how he ended up with the Fat Bitch, it explains where his nihilism and misanthropic pessimism on the world manifests. All done in the signature Noé style of callous and sardonic realism, here, the claustrophobic tunnel into thee series of the unconscious incubus begins.

Words like "gritty" and "visceral" fall short of describing this excellent short film.

Noe's first masterpiece introduces us to the character known only as the Butcher and follows his grim existence as he struggles to maintain his business and care for his daughter. Filmed using aggressive camera techniques that intensify every scene and featuring sharp editing that produces a perfect flowing narrative, Carne is an intense study into the banal existence of one man who is driven to feelings of extreme anger and dissatisfaction from living in a selfish society.

A good prequel to "I Stand Alone". I don't have much more to say about it rather than... it felt far more disturbing to watch this compared to the sequel. To only get the storyline one doesn't have to watch this. It's summed up in the beginning of "I Stand Alone"... but I still think it's worth watching this one (before watching "I Stand Alone").

5 Juliol 2011 - Reflexió interessant sobre la caracterització social de l'individu sotmès a situacions extremes. La violència en l'ésser humà. Interessant manera de narrar: Cares despersonalitzades per l'ocultació dels ulls, pas del temps, impactes visuals i sonors, explicitació o suggeriment.

Raw, intense, bleak, with an interesting style and merciless editing. I could have done without the horse-killing opening scene though.

Gaspar Noe's short serves as an introduction to the butcher character from I Stand Alone (and, briefly, Irreversible). It does quite a bit to explain how he got to be so hostile and misanthropic, and fills in much of the background detail. The intertitles are even more heavy-handed than the ones in ISA, though.

Em honra de Philippe Nahon (1938 - 2020). Jesus, como odeio o Gaspar Noé. Tô dando duas estrelas porque pelo menos é curto. DVDRip no MakingOff.

04 Temmuz 2011 & noe'nin atmosfer kurma cabasinin verim vermeye basladigi bir film. filmin geneline yayilmis, sert ve kirli kurgu atmosferi tamamliyor. kirmizi renklerin hakim oldugu, sinema kurallarinin cignenip cignenip, yenilerinin konuldugu alisilmisin disinda bir film. I Stand Alone ile aynı karakterin devam hikayesini anlatmis ve o filmde de ayni kurgu ve atmosfer ile cok daha basarili ve uzun bir ise imza atmisti. seyirciyi zorlayici ve bu nedenle de guzel.

Oh boy. This was a real compact thriller

Here Noe uses the interesting editing techniques that we'll see more of in his later films. He really knows how to paint a bleak, disgusting portrait of humanity in the most colorful, flashy way possible. I actually wish I had seen this before I Stand Alone as the two seem to be one singular story. This is definitely a worthy precursor to that film and a good indication of Noe's talent as a filmmaker.

I suspect that Carne and its sequel, I Stand Alone, appeal mostly to people who are easily enchanted by cynicism and violence alone, and its gimmicky editing supposedly gives it an air of respectability. The story really isn't much in any way, the characters are unidimensional, and the artsy sheen doesn't cut it for me.