| Overview: | A hit at Lincoln Center's 2003 Rendez-vous with French Cinema series and winner of the Prix de la Jeunesse at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival as well as prizes for best first film at the London and Stockholm film festivals, CARNAGE signals the arrival of a major new directorial talent--Delphine Gleize. In a wildly original, intertwining story that almost defies classification, CARNAGE traces the bizarre, often magical effects a 1,000-pound Andalusian bull has on a disparate group of characters.
The bull's name is Romero - "Rosemary" in Spanish--and in Spain, it is believed that the herb rosemary possesses great healing powers. The tale begins in Spain as a young bullfighter is gored in the ring and the bull is killed. Overnight, various parts of the anima l--horns, eyes, bones--make their way to recipients across Europe. A little girl named Winnie gets one of the bones as a treat for her giant Great Dane; a struggling actress (Chiara Mastroianni) sells Winnie's parents the bone in a supermarket promotion; a philandering scientist (Jacques Gamblin) and his pregnant wife receive the eyes; a taxidermist gets the horns as a gift from his elderly mother; a Spanish woman (Angela Molina) dines on toro en rioja in a restaurant.
With elegance, humor and a remarkable visual command, Gleize weaves these stories together, creating a fresh take on one of the recurring obsessions of modern life: whether beneath the spontaneity and chaos of our lives, there is some guiding principle that connects us all.
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