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A man driven by a frenzied and unbridled sexual hunger. A man who dreamed of saving the world and who cannot save himself. A terrified man. A lost man.
As a portrait of a privileged, narcissistic sex addict, its magnificence and messiness are intertwined.
It may be ageing provocateur Abel Ferrara’s best film since King Of New York, but the film belongs to Depardieu. Like that painting of Kramer in Seinfeld, he is a loathsome, offensive brute, yet you can’t look away.
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow from Friday August 8, 2014, until Thursday August 14, 2014. More info: http://www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/
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