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Man Bites Dog

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Man Bites Dog
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NC17,1hr 35min
Genre:
Comedy
Release:
1991
Directors:
Remy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde
Distributor:
Criterion
Starring:
Benoît Poelvoorde, Remy Belvaux, André Bonzel  ...more
Synopsis: Man Bites Dog is a Belgian faux-documentary and high-concept satire of media violence which follows the lethal exploits of Benoit Benoit Poelvoorde, an affable, and very talkative, serial killer. He kills for money, and he kills for pleasure, and he talks all the while about philosophy and the proper technique for weighing a corpse down underwater. He is followed through his slaughter-fest by the filmmakers, Rémy and André (the actual filmmakers, Rémy Belvaux and André Bonzel), and the line between ... Full Synopsis
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Brian J. Dillard, AMG Review
Kitted out with the shoestring realism of a black-and-white mockumentary and a lot of over-the-top media satire, C'est Arrive Pres de Chez Vous manages to invert serial-killer clichés by focusing on the banality of murder itself. Instead of the picturesque boogeymen of Silence of the Lambs or Seven, we get Benoit Poelvoorde's loquacious, charming, and workmanlike Ben, who treats killing like any other ... Full Review
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Benoît Poelvoorde
Ben
Remy Belvaux
Remy (Reporter), Reporter
André Bonzel
Cameraman
Jean-Marc Chenut
Patrick (Sound Man #1)
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