Blood of the Beasts
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Director Georges Franju Music director Joseph Kosma Duration Country France | 8/10 IMDb Genre Documentary, Short, Horror Screenplay Georges Franju Writer Georges Franju Language French | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1949 Cast Nicole Ladmiral, Georges Hubert, Henri Fournel, Andre Brunier, Alfred Macquart, Maurice Griselle Similar movies Directed by Georges Franju, Slaughterhouse movies, Documentaries | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Blood of the Beasts (Le Sang des bêtes) is a 1949 short French documentary film written and directed by Georges Franju. It is Franju's first film and is narrated by Georges Hubert and Nicole Ladmiral.
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- Cubop blood of the beasts
- Le sang des betes blood of the beasts excerpt
- Synopsis
- Production
- Release
- Awards
- References
The film is a special feature on The Criterion Collection DVD for Franju's Eyes Without a Face (1960).
Le sang des betes blood of the beasts excerpt
Synopsis
Franju's film contrasts peaceful scenes of Parisian suburbia with scenes from a slaughterhouse. The film documents the slaughtering and butchering of horses, cattle, and sheep. The film is narrated without emotive language.
Production
Franju states that he wasn't interested in the subject of slaughterhouses when he decided to make the film, but the location around the building was the Ourcq Canal, allowing him to make a documentary film. Franju stated by using a documentary film format, he was able to use both locations as lyrical counterpoints and "to explain it as a realist while remaining a surrealist by displacing the object in another context. In this new setting, the object rediscovers its quality as an object". The film marked the debut of documentary photographer Patrice Molinard who took stills during the shoot.
Blood of the Beasts was made as a black and white film as an aesthetic. Franju states "If it were in colour, it'd be repulsive... the sensation people get would be physical one."
Release
Blood of the Beasts had no commercial release outside of Paris.
Awards
References
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