While studying in France in the 1980s, Issei Sagawa shot his roommate, raped her corpse, and then began to eat it. Shot in extreme closeups that elicit feelings of revulsion, the documentary takes the viewer on an anthropological journey to the very limits of humanity, to a world of forbidden desire, fetish, and morality twisted beyond recognition.
In their fifth joint feature film venture, the creators of Leviathan and somniloquies submit a claustrophobic and disturbing portrait of Japanese cannibal Issei Sagawa. He achieved notoriety in the 1980s as a student in France who shot his roommate, raped her corpse, and then began to eat it. Nearly 70, the now severely disabled man, who is cared for by his brother, returns to his crime with the filmmakers, reliving his untamed desires and outlining his hopes for the future. Shot in extreme closeups that elicit feelings of revulsion, the picture takes the viewer on an anthropological journey to the very limits of humanity, to a world of forbidden desire, fetish, and morality twisted beyond recognition.
Hubert Poul
90 min / Color, DCP
Director Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
/ Dir. of Photography Patrick Lindenmaier
/ Editor Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
/ Producer Valentina Novati, Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
/ Production Norte Productions, S.E.L
/ Sales Elle Driver
Verena Paravel (b. 1971, Neuchâtel, Switzerland), Lucien Castaing-Taylor (b. 1966, Liverpool). Joint filmography: Leviathan (2012), He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary (2013), Nature morte (2013), Ah Humanity! (2015), somniloquies (2017), Caniba, 2017
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