It's a film noir from which the male sex will not come out unscathed.
Bowling Saturne
by director Patricia Mazuy (
Saint-Cyr
,
Peaux de vaches
) is her sixth film.
It is the most brutal, the most charged with violence.
Undoubtedly the most cinematic too with its plot in the form of a Greek tragedy.
On the death of their father, two brothers who are complete opposites find themselves reunited by the bowling alley left as a legacy by the patriarch who we will never see.
Owner of the place, this old hunter with virility slung over his shoulder, whose African exploits we will eventually discover in the form of bloody safaris filmed in super-8, has left a lasting mark on the minds of his two offspring.
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The bowling alley is called Saturne and we can guess why.
The painter Goya gave a face to this terrifying ancient god
"devouring one of his sons"
to avoid being dethroned by his descendants.
The film begins as the youngest of the children walks through the night, gobbling up a hamburger…
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