
Seul contre tous (English title: I Stand Alone or In The Bowels Of France - I Stand Alone) is a 1998 French film, written and directed by Gaspar Noé, and starring Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankye Pain, and Martine Audrain. The film focuses on several pivotal days in the life of a bitter former butcher as he rages against the world. The history of the Butcher is narrated through voice-over and a montage of still photographs. Much of the story is shown in greater detail in Noé's 1992 film, Carne, of which this is a sequel. Orphaned at a young age and subsequently abused by a priest, he opens a butcher shop and fathers an autistic daughter with a woman who leaves him because it isn't a boy. He raises his daughter while fighting his incestuous feelings for her. On the day of her first menstrual period, he sees blood on her skirt and stabs an innocent man who he thinks raped her. He is sentenced to prison and forced to sell his butcher shop to a Muslim, and his daughter is put in an institution. He has sex with his prison cellmate, but after being released, he vows to forget it happened. He gets a job working for the fat woman who owns the tavern he used to be drink in. She seduces him, and she becomes pregnant. She sells her business and moves to northern France with him, promising to purchase a butcher shop. It is now 1980. The Butcher hates his life with his overbearing, overweight mistress. She backs out of her promise to open a butcher shop, forcing him to take a <b>...</b>
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