Man Bites Dog - Criterion Collection
by R?my Belvaux, Andr? Bonzel, Beno?t Poelvoorde
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Actor: Andr? Bonzel, Jean-Marc Chenut, Olivier Cotica, R?my Belvaux, Rachel DemanDirector: Andr? Bonzel, Beno?t Poelvoorde, R?my Belvaux
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-09-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of Man Bites Dog - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Subtle like a brick through a windshield.
Summary: 4 Stars
It's a pretty good movie. If you've been drinking with the right people who're onto all of the verite cliches, it's a fun movie. With my crowd, it's a do shots when shots are fired kind of movie. Bonus points for slamming a beer when they murder and then rape the dead, disemboweled body of the suburban housewife.
What gets overlooked is that it's a bloodthirsty little piece of satire that's willing to get ugly to make a point about the moral culpability of an audience.
Hilarious stuff, but not for beginners.
Summary of Man Bites Dog - Criterion Collection
Documentary filmmakers Andr? and R?my have found an ideal subject in Ben. He is witty, sophisticated, intelligent, well liked-and a serial killer. As Andr? and R?my document Ben's routines, they become increasingly entwined in his vicious program, sacrificing their objectivity and their morality. Controversial winner of the International Critics' Prize at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival, Man Bites Dog stunned audiences worldwide with its unflinching imagery and biting satire of media violence.This Belgian satire (in French with English subtitles) is dark, dark, dark--but also right on the money in its sly sendup of the media's fascination with violence and its complicity therein. This mock documentary has a trio of filmmakers shooting a cin?ma v?rit? feature about a garrulous serial killer who lets the film crew follow him around as he selects victims and then dispatches them. But at what point does filmmaking become participation? These hapless documentarians soon find out as their subject eventually pulls them into his world, including a gun battle with a rival film crew and their own criminal star. Gruesomely hilarious, with a deadpan wit that's hard to resist. --Marshall Fine
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