The plot is the kind of maddening, meandering crap that makes you want to kick something.
Vincent Gallo,the lead, does a lot of staring in this movie.Everyone in this movie does a lot of staring.I suppose director Claire Denis thought that providing coherent dialogue to go along with all the staring would have been “too obvious” or something.
Vincent plays a honeymooning in Paris American doctor who suffers from the same affliction as his old girlfriend, a woman married to another doctor,a former colleague of Vincent’s who is trying to cure the affliction:the need to eat people and have sex with them at the same time.
The female cannibal enjoys going roaming and eating people but Vincent doesn’t.He takes pills and avoids his wife in bed and starts mooning after the French hotel maid instead.His wife copes by sleeping a lot.
The blurb on the DVD cover promised that Vincent and his former girlfriend were going to go on a bloody rampage together.But they got it wrong.The woman goes on a bloody rampage on her own but old Vincent shows up after it’s over.She lights a fire in her house,Vincent drops by for a chat and she tries to bite him but he shoves her down and she catches on fire,presumably expiring.He leaves and the dead woman’s husband walks in to the burning house.The fact that Vincent never gets to talk to this guy totally deflates the urgency built up around their meeting.The fact that Vincent seems to spend days trying to find this couple yet has about 2 minutes screen time with her is just irritating.It was the one solid plot device handed to us and it goes nowhere.Ok,she was so far gone that she wanted to screw and eat Vincent.But why could he not have had a talk with her husband?
Movies that end abruptly like this, having settled nothing plot wise,are annoying.I know they’re supposed to be artsy but it looks more like they ran out of money and had to stop filming.
I was going to use a still from the movie but I found this picture. It’s a beauty.