Decades Exploration XXIII - Hooptober X
2002, Countries: France
One of the hardest to watch films I've seen. The scenes of mutilation are so intense, the sound design disgusting. The scene where the main character behaves very erratically at a business dinner had me screaming at the screen, it reached the funny point where cringe and second-hand embarrassment meet abject horror.
All this horror effectively supports subtext that resonate though. The themes around body image are pretty apparent, but I…
