I Stand Alone

Seul contre tous (1998)

Timing: 1:29 (89 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1998-05-16

Country

France

Production

Les Cinémas de la Zone, Canal+, Love Streams Productions

Genre

Drama, Thriller

Budget

$0

Revenue

$6 955

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Director

Gaspar Noé

Actors

Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain, Martine Audrain, Zaven, Jean-François Rauger, Guillaume Nicloux, Olivier Doran, Aïssa Djabri, Serge Faurie
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Scenario

Gaspar Noé

Producer

Gaspar Noé, Lucile Hadzihalilovic

Operator

Dominique Colin

Composer

Artist

Audition

Editing

Gaspar Noé, Lucile Hadzihalilovic
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• Throughout the film, a first-person voice-over narrates the story. The text was overlaid onto the images after filming had concluded. It was written by the director, screenwriter, and producer Gaspar Noé himself. To better immerse himself in the protagonist's persona, he wrote the text while mostly drunk. The voice clearly conveys barely suppressed anger and frustration, largely caused by the fact that Noé was on the brink of poverty while working on his cinematic debut.
• According to the film's director, screenwriter, and producer Gaspar Noé, the movie was very popular among the French far-right due to the anti-immigration message articulated by the main character. However, all sympathy vanished as soon as it became known that Noé himself was an immigrant.
• The final role of Arlette Balkanis.
• As a teenager, Gaspar Noé visited France, his mother's homeland, for the first time. In Paris, his father told him, "They eat horses here" (consuming horse meat is unheard of in Argentina). This sparked Noé's idea to make a film with a butcher as the main character.
• The warning title card before the film's climax was borrowed from William Castle's thriller "The Tingler".