Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- daughter
- suicide
- work
- nihilism
- gun
- killing
- crisis
- butcher
- revenge
- slaughterhouse
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Zaven — Man with Morals
- Jean-François Rauger — Real Estate Agent
- Guillaume Nicloux — Supermarket Manager
- Olivier Doran — Presenter (voice)
- Aïssa Djabri — Doctor Choukroun
- Serge Faurie — Director of Hospital
- Frédéric Pfohl — Hospital Nurse
- Stéphanie Sec — Hospital Nurse
- Arlette Balkis — Dying Woman
- Gil Bertharion Jr. — Truck Driver
- Rado — Hotel Caretaker
- Directed
- Gaspar Noé
- Written
- Gaspar Noé
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 586 ratings
- Studio
- Les Cinémas de la Zone, Love Streams Productions
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1991Carne
Where it starts.
I Stand Alone
1999 · You’re here
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
