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Tributes and Retrospectives - Tribute to the French Cinematheque - A Selection by Frédéric Bonnaud
A case for vegetarianism? An allegory of the horrors perpetrated against human bodies in the Holocaust? The images of Blood of the Beasts, some of the most disturbing in film History, defy simplistic readings. In this documentary, a Paris slaughterhouse and the dark district that surrounds it are filmed in a peculiarly unsentimental way, which only intensifies the morbid poetry commonly associated to Georges Franju.
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Cast:
GEORGES HUBERT (VOICE), NICOLE LADMIRAL (VOICE), ALFRED MACQUART, MAURICE GRISELLE -
Original Title:
Le Sang des Bêtes -
Country:
France -
Year:
1949 - 22’ Subtitles: PT
Director
Georges Franju
Georges Franju (1912-1987), a decisive figure in French cinema, was the director of poetic short documentary films such as Le Sang des bêtes (1949) and Hôtel des Invalides (1951), although he is most known for being the author of horror masterwork Les Yeux sans visage (1960). His cinema was deeply reflective of the innovations of surrealist poetry, Murnau and Lang’s expressionism, and the lugubrious atmosphere of Nazi-occupied Paris.