Alain Fleischer's Avant-Garde Production
with Klaus Kinski
director:
Alain Fleischer
starring: Klaus Kinski ˇ
Catherine Jourdan
ˇ Pierre Clementi ˇ Lisette Malider ˇ Anthony Steffen
An
Avant-garde movie that explores the relationship between humans
and animals. Specifically, a cabaret singer performs in a nightclub
called Noah's Ark to an audience in animal costumes. Afterwards she
then goes on the prowl through the city and the metro zoo. Throughout
the narrative, people's roles are interchangeable as society is compared
to the animal kingdom, bound together through basic impulses. They crawl
like cats, respond through instinct, and are driven by simple motives:
they lust, they sing, they discuss (nudity, seduction and murder), all
leading to an encounter with the 'zoo manager' (Klaus Kinski).
This
is a controversial experimental project by Alain Fleischer, a university
professor in arts and cinema at the University of Montreal. He won the
Prix de Rome in 1983 and taught at Villa Médicis 1985-87.
Mr Fleischer has been the director of Fresnoy Studio in Tourcoing, France
since 1997.
A French
film, with English subtitles; widescreen format, fully uncut (91 minutes),
DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT; extras include selected
theatrical trailers.
Violence/Strong
Sexual Situations/Drugs/Sexual Brutality
Recommended for Adult Audiences
An
Avant-garde movie that explores the relationship between humans
and animals. Specifically, a cabaret singer performs in a nightclub
called Noah's Ark to an audience in animal costumes. Afterwards she
then goes on the prowl through the city and the metro zoo. Throughout
the narrative, people's roles are interchangeable as society is compared
to the animal kingdom, bound together through basic impulses. They crawl
like cats, respond through instinct, and are driven by simple motives:
they lust, they sing, they discuss (nudity, seduction and murder), all
leading to an encounter with the 'zoo manager' (Klaus Kinski).
