Blood of the Beasts (1949) Short Film
An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the nearby slaughterhouses.
Genres: Drama, Documentary
AKA: Le sang des bêtes
Country: France
Directed By: Georges Franju
Written By: Georges Franju
Starring: Nicole Ladmiral, Georges Hubert
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Blood of the Beasts belongs to 26 collections
1. Criterion Collection (public: moderated by caffe - 143 stars)
2. Embedded Short Movie (public: moderated by Vandelay1 - 60 stars)
3. Jonathan Rosenbaum's Top 1000 Movies (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 35 stars)
4. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2014 revision) (public: moderated by Jehan - 27 stars)
5. They Shoot Pictures' Recommended Viewing (public: moderated by Cinephile - 17 stars)
6. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2017 revision) (public: moderated by iconogassed - 17 stars)
7. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2013 revision) (public: moderated by rant1229 - 16 stars)
8. Doubling The Canon (public - 13 stars)
9. International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 9 stars)
10. Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive Art (public: moderated by Edson Abas - 6 stars)
11. Doubling The Canon (2010 update) (public: moderated by MMAlpha - 5 stars)
12. Sight & Sound Greatest Documentaries of all Time (public: moderated by avgcrtckr - 5 stars)
13. Paris (public: moderated by td888 - 4 stars)
14. They Shoot Pictures 1,000 Greatest Films (2007 revision) (public: moderated by Scottathon - 4 stars)
15. Brief Encounters (public - 3 stars)
16. They Shoot Pictures ex-Top 1,000 (public: moderated by MMAlpha - 3 stars)
17. BFI 100 key Documentary films (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 2 stars)
18. Animal Killing (public - 1 star)
19. Doubling the Canon (2011 update) (public: moderated by MMAlpha - 1 star)
20. Doubling the Canon (2012 update) (public: moderated by Cinephile - 1 star)
21. Debased.com 100 Greatest Cult Movies (private - 5 stars)
22. Coheed's Films I Need To See Or Try To Track Down (private: Coheed - 3 stars)
23. us-tv Kenny 101 Documentaries (private: timxyz)
24. Filmspotting Ratings Project: Week 34 (private: PeaceAnarchy)
25. Amos Vogel Buluşmaları (private: parcaliham)
26. toucé (private: rnest)
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letterboxdvo | 38 79% |
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fat!h | 80 81% |
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loc42 | 75 68% |
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Distances itself from the neat and ordered surface of the civilization and reveals the brutal and violent ground on which the former stands. Has an ironic tone as well as it puts the woman's aestheticized voice in opposition to the man's dull voice expaining the killing machine. Right after the Holocaust, Franju underlines that our civilization based on a carnophallogocentric logic, is always a repetition of Holocaust on a daily basis. Dated it may seem, but a brave movie for its time.
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TMDaines | 90 94% |
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Barraoc | 70 64% |
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Pretty gruesome scenes from a slaughter house. This one will stick with me for a while.
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mCihhh | 50 21% |
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mannaz230 | 70 62% |
| Aug 23, 2015 | Patatuela | 90 84% |
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dardan | 70 70% |
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At least the horse and cow died instantly, without much stress, but what the hell are they doing to the other animals?
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| Jul 31, 2015 | GRouleau | 77 74% |
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| Jul 16, 2015 | thirdeye42 | 80 87% |
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| Mar 31, 2015 | kamikaze66 | 70 50% |
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| Mar 14, 2015 |  |
backwardsuit | 84 88% |
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Haunting and powerful documentary that brilliantly uses landscapes and interiors to reflect on the relationships between man and his environment. Brutally real yet surreal and dreamlike. Franju shoots slaughterhouses as the soul of a tortured post-war conscience. Ahead of its time.
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| Jan 15, 2015 | metaller | 80 79% |
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| Jan 08, 2015 | kubbrick | 100 81% |
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allisoncm | 60 38% |
| Nov 20, 2014 | Truffaut16 | 56 19% |
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lisa- | 5 69% |
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great use of juxtoposition in this painful short. i've seen enough animal slaughter recently to last a lifetime.
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jackinthebox | 70 55% |
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A bit hard for me to watch, though the imagery seems to have inspired Eraserhead.
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A stunning piece of film from beginning to end. David Lynch talks about this film in the documentary "Lynch" and its imagery is a clear influence on Eraserhead. It wouldn't be inapt to characterize this as animal rights propaganda, but the real focus is class, and the human workers who put their physical and psychological well-being on the line for the benefit of the idle rich.
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An old French short on the art of butchery. Perhaps not the most beautiful of the arts, but these men and women do their work admirably. Though I will say the "hacking the calves' heads off" scene was a bit much. There's got to be a better way to do that.
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MrsEmmaPeel | 78 58% |
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It's strange, some parts of this movie would be at home in a David Cronenberg or John Carpenter movie.
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Fucking violence in animals.
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cinema_hell | 80 62% |
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Disgusting and cold, but, with a beautiful cinematography, nice camera work, etc...
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This is quite unsettling. Not necessarily enjoyable, but good.
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# 917
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| Dec 26, 2007 | dissidentdov | 70 31% |
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PeaceAnarchy | 70 26% |
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It works and it's worth watching but it's quite disturbing, especially watching headless animals twitch. The black and white helps in this regard. In the end I'd recommend it, but I can't see myself watching it again.
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MartinTeller | 74 51% |
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This is obviously disturbing and disgusting. Mercifully brief... any more of this and it would have been not only repetitive but nauseating. Nonetheless, even though it's a nasty business, these guys clearly aren't out to make animals suffer, and even 50 years ago they were pretty humane about it. An interesting (but hard to watch) piece, despite the less-than-subtle narration.
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| Average Percentile 64.17% from 196 Ratings |  |
