I Stand Alone (1998)
May 16, 1998
Drama, Thriller
1h 29m


In the bowels of France.
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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Gaspar Noé
- The Butcher Philippe Nahon
- Daughter Blandine Lenoir
- Mistress Frankie Pain
- Belle-Mere Martine Audrain
- Real Estate Agent Jean-François Rauger
- Supermarket Manager Guillaume Nicloux
- Presenter (voice) Olivier Doran
- Doctor Choukroun Aïssa Djabri
Recommendations
Keywords
- daughter
- suicide
- work
- nihilism
- gun
- killing
- crisis
- butcher
- revenge
- slaughterhouse
- working class
- jobless
- social reject
- economic crisis
- revenge killing
- thought
- unemployed
- new french extremism
- antisocial behavior
- lower class
- poor man
- industrial town
- ex-prisoner
- misanthrope
- inner thoughts
- incestuous fantasy
- narrator