Martyrs

Organisers from the most extreme festivals saw it in the Cannes Film Market. Toronto took it for their Midnight Madness section. In France it was prohibited for under-18s also marking it “avec avertissement”, which is akin to the “seriously dangerous” label from times of the Spanish censor. Sitges showed it first and they say that they had never seen anything like it in a commercial cinema. Its director insisted that the film was genuinely European, inspired by Bataille’s ideas on the need for suffering. The powers that be were not impressed. They tried to ban the film which is plain crazy. Nobody in 1651 told Francisco Camilo not to paint the flogging of St Bartholomew and nothing stopped them hanging it in the Prado Museum. Weird…

Francia-Canadá, 2008
Dirección: Pascal Laugier
Producción: Richard Grandpierre, Simon Trottier
Guión: Pascal Laugier
Fotografía: Stéphane Martin, Nathalie Moliavko-Visotzky
Música: Sepukku Paradigm
Montaje: Sébastien Prangere
Intérpretes: Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï,
Catherine Begin, Robert Toupin, Patricia Tulasne
Duración: 98 minutos
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