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because they tend to have parcels with money and other goods he can steal. He also enjoys killing women because he claims they don’t fight back as much. However, Ben also kills a real estate developer who rudely evicted one of his friends, and when he kills an immigrant night watchman at a construction site, he expresses concern that the construction company hired the
African employee for unscrupulous reasons (before launching into his own racist tirade and requesting the film crew expose the body’s genitals). At the same construction site, Ben points out where he killed and buried two Muslims, and explains that he made sure to entomb their bodies in a wall that faces
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butchered with a knife, her entrails spilling out, while the husband had his throat cut. Later, Ben's girlfriend and family receive death threats from the brother of one of the
Italian criminals who Ben had killed earlier. Ben's violence becomes more and more random until he kills an acquaintance in front of his girlfriend and friends during a birthday dinner. Spattered with blood, they act as though nothing horrible has happened, continuing to offer Ben gifts. The film crew disposes of the body for Ben.
920:, with the filmmakers always choosing to depict them as sudden and messy, making the entire experience feel like one excruciatingly long snuff film." He added the film's "gritty photography…helps to hammer home brutal realism, with the hard shadows and lack of color making the Belgian setting look hopeless and dreary as Ben goes about his nihilistic shenanigans."
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horror of the rape scene, or the bleak comedy of bodies piling up without consequence. Today, it doesn’t look like provocation for provocation’s sake; it’s a thoughtful, evergreen thesis on documentary 'reality' and the grotesque distortions of the movie camera. It’s even possible to laugh about it now. Sicko."
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Ben ventures into apartment buildings, explaining how it is more cost-effective to attack old people than young couples because the elderly have more cash at home and are easier to kill. In a following scene, he screams wildly at an elderly lady, causing her to have a heart attack. As she lies dying,
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was actually passed for film and video last year, before recent concerns about the violence under-age children could be seeing on video", but added, "We did think that as the film was a subtitled, grainy, black-and-white, low-budget student film for adults it would go to self-selected audience. Also
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hastened that inevitability—the film looks wiser and more prescient now than it did in 1992. Back then, most of the arguments about the film centered on whether it should even exist; before you could even broach a discussion about themes, you first had to come to terms with the nearly unprecedented
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At the abandoned building that Ben uses for a hideout, the crew encounters two
Italian criminals or gangsters also hiding out in the building. Ben kills the Italians before discovering that they were actually also being filmed by a competing documentary camera crew. Ben and his camera crew have fun
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defines audacity. An assured, seductive chamber of horrors, it marries nightmare with humor and then abruptly takes the laughter away. Intentionally disturbing, it is close to the last word about the nature of violence on film, a troubling, often funny vision of what the movies have done to our
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After a night of drinking with the film crew, Ben invades a home and interrupts a couple having sex. He then takes the pair hostage, holding the man at gunpoint while he and the crew gang-rape the woman. The following morning, the camera dispassionately records the aftermath: the woman has been
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The camera crew becomes more and more involved in the murders, starting out as silent accomplices but gradually assisting Ben in his killings. When Ben invades a home and kills an entire family, they help him hold down a young boy and smother him with a pillow, all the while keeping up a casual
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also implicates the audience for watching it—a stand that has naturally made both films extremely polarizing. When Rémy talks about never having enough , it isn’t just the filmmakers who are guilty of insatiable bloodlust, but the unseen audience that regularly seeks out violence and mayhem as
478:. The film's writers, Belvaux, Poelvoorde and Bonzel, all appear in the film using their own first names: Poelvoorde as Ben, the killer; Belvaux as Rémy, the director; and Bonzel as André, the camera operator. The genesis of the idea came from shooting a documentary without any money.
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episodes aired, before the dozens of increasingly extreme shows that have come since…The disturbing film they left behind has more meaning today than it did when it was made, an indictment of a celebrity-obsessed culture that considers anyone in front of a camera to be a star."
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Although it is never shown or suggested in the film itself that Benoit kills a baby, the original poster features an image of a baby's pacifier with spattering blood coming from an unseen target at the end of Benoit's gun. For foreign release posters (not including the
521:. Though there was some outrage towards the film for its violence, it won the International Critics' Prize, the SACD award for Best Feature and the Special Award of the Youth for directors Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde. It went on to play the
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called the film "a grisly sick joke of a film that some will find funny, others simply appalling." Holden concluded his review by stating that the film "gets carried away with its own cleverness. It makes the audience the butt of a nasty practical joke."
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entertainment." He also noted the film "forcefully reveals the lie of documentary 'objectivity,' this false notion that filmmakers can be flies on the wall and record life as it really happens." He concluded, "Though time has made the big shocks in
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Benoit
Poelvoorde's parents and grandparents were portrayed by his real relatives. They thought they were filming a documentary on Benoit, and had no idea that the footage was going to be used in a film in which he is a serial killer.
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was released on DVD uncut as a part of The
Criterion Collection with spine #165. The Criterion DVD restores scenes that were removed in edited versions and includes English-language interviews with Belvaux, Bonzel, and Poelvoorde.
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who holds forth at length about whatever comes to mind, be it the "craft" of murder, the failings of architecture, his own poetry, or classical music, which he plays with his girlfriend
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for the scene of "sexual violence." After removal of the rape scene, the film was given an R classification. This edited version was released to home video in
Australia in late 1993 by 21st Century Films.
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1857:"'Man Bites Dog': The Controversial Mockumentary is Still a Disturbing Masterpiece 30 Years Later"
1267:"Il y a 25 ans, "C'est arrivé près de chez vous" et Poelvoorde enflammaient le Festival de Cannes"
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holds an approval rating of 74%, based on 19 reviews, and an average rating of 7.4/10.
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1302:"Review/Film Festival; Mad-Dog Violence on TV: Sensationalism or Spoof?"
1773:"Carry on at Cannes: Tarantino's pot shot at the British film industry"
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1598:"MOVIE REVIEW : 'Man Bites Dog': Seductive Nature of Violence"
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1669:"Man Bites Dog and Reservoir Dogs Win Top Toronto Festival Awards"
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violence, eventually becoming accomplices. The film received the
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release), the baby's pacifier was changed to a set of dentures.
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he casually remarks that this method saved him a bullet.
1398:"Close Up: Man Bites Dog – Controversy & Censorship"
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For the film's 30th anniversary in 2021, Luiz H.C. of
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Belgian Film Critics Association Award for Best Film
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highly praised the film upon its release, writing, "
1138:"31e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1992""
565:. Despite protests, the film was able to secure an
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867:in 2010, Scott Tobias said, "Five years before
1970:. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. pp. 205–215.
1164:"C'Est Arrive Pres de Chez Vous Man Bites Dog"
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1481:Gentilviso, Chris (5 October 2010).
968:British Board of Film Classification
2037:Man Bites Dog: Cinema of Entrapment
1951:. Citadel Press. pp. 204–206.
1819:"Mondo Culto: Man Bites Dog (1992)"
1790:Schneider, Steven Jay, ed. (2013).
834:", edited by Steven Jay Schneider.
784:Best Genre Video Release nomination
523:Toronto International Film Festival
1915:Bovberg, Jason (11 October 2002).
1883:McGowan, Chris (6 November 1993).
1540:Bracken, Mike (21 December 2005).
1300:Holden, Stephen (9 October 1992).
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2153:Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven
1817:Howells, Sacha (10 August 2009).
1619:Gonsalves, Rob (2 January 2007).
1509:Fox, Michael (27 February 2017).
1370:Tan, Declan (14 September 2012).
1001:Tobias, Scott (28 January 2010).
500:killing of the 4-year-old Grégory
378:adventures, recording them for a
1644:"Belgian pic tops Sitges prizes"
1642:Besas, Peter (12 October 1992).
1396:Roberts, Will (29 August 2014).
1243:from the original on 7 July 2022
1142:archives.semainedelacritique.com
1057:Lafond, Frank (1 January 2003).
1025:Diskeuve, Xavier (17 May 2017).
830:The film is included among the "
351:Belgian Film Critics Association
347:André Cavens Award for Best Film
2704:Obscenity controversies in film
2273:The Sexual Life of the Belgians
1596:Turan, Kenneth (2 April 1993).
1265:Fossurier, Yann (20 May 2017).
1162:Nesselson, Lisa (4 June 1992).
813:as part of his top 10 films in
611:Australian Classification Board
176:Acteurs Auteurs Associés (AAA)
1621:"Movie Review - Man Bites Dog"
1109:Henley, Jon (17 August 2017).
805:Among the film's admirers are
305:C'est arrivé près de chez vous
115:Jacqueline Poelvoorde-Pappaert
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2724:French-language Belgian films
2634:Belgian black-and-white films
1423:"No. 24 - 227-235 - 25032003"
1229:Lyttle, John (15 July 1993).
1339:. 26 March 1993. p. 24.
728:International Critics' Prize
2624:1990s French-language films
1945:Bouzereau, Laurent (2000).
1855:H.C., Luiz (28 July 2021).
1483:"20 Years of NC-17 Ratings"
1333:"Top European First Film".
1092:"CRIMEWATCH: Man Bites Dog"
861:Writing about the film for
515:International Critics' Week
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2644:Belgian black comedy films
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2125:Woman Between Wolf and Dog
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773:Best Film Award nomination
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2669:Belgian independent films
2614:1992 crime thriller films
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913:What We Do in the Shadows
768:1993 European Film Awards
721:1992 Cannes Film Festival
519:1992 Cannes Film Festival
433:Valérie Parent as Valerie
219:15 January 1993
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2639:1990s crime comedy films
1750:"Steve Buscemi's Top 10"
1271:France 3 Hauts-de-France
815:The Criterion Collection
2694:Films about snuff films
2679:Belgian satirical films
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2604:1992 black comedy films
2575:Love According to Dalva
2495:The Brand New Testament
2139:My Name Is Anna Magnani
2095:The Son of Amir Is Dead
573:. When asked about the
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1569:"Man Bites Dog (1992)"
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2193:The van Paemel Family
1096:www.furiouscinema.com
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412:criminal organization
204:11 May 1992
167:Les Artistes Anonymes
2684:Self-reflexive films
2654:Films set in Belgium
2046:Criterion Collection
1699:European Film Awards
1336:Screen International
1197:Criterion Collection
827:, released in 1994.
824:Natural Born Killers
735:Sitges Film Festival
704:Sitges Film Festival
445:as Andre (Cameraman)
227: (United States)
19:For other uses, see
2719:Films about torture
2664:Found footage films
2485:Two Days, One Night
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971:. 22 September 1992
2629:Belgium in fiction
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1730:on 17 October 2006
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2042:Matt Zoller Seitz
1862:Bloody Disgusting
1754:www.criterion.com
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1602:Los Angeles Times
901:Bloody Disgusting
819:Quentin Tarantino
794:Best Foreign Film
762:Metro Media Award
744:Benoit Poelvoorde
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428:Benoît Poelvoorde
328:Benoît Poelvoorde
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