Carne

French. English sub-titles.

The story is about a horsemeat butcher left in sole charge of his daughter, whose life doesn't change much as she grows up, until he suspects a labourer of raping her. Sexual tension is at a maximum from the very beginning, as we see the butcher washing and dressing his daughter from birth to adolescence, while her only pleasure appears to be riding a fairground horse. All the relationships are stunted in some way, and we are left with only bodies and their functions. An intensely disturbing attack on the senses. The DVD includes the shorts "Bakvissen" and "Les Petits Oiseaux."