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An
enigmatic and hypnotic story that resorts to repetition to describe the
wayward path of a brutal serial killer of women. Jean travels throughout
France carrying as baggage only his marionettes and a fancy-dress as a
wolf. He rapes the women he meets and then abandons the lifeless body
in a hotel room, in the woods, or on the banks of a river. He is awkward,
can barely talk, and is rejected by society.
One
day, he meets Claire, a young girl with a car that has broken down on
the edge of the road. They eventually fall in love and find as it were,
an echo to their problems in one another. She is a virgin, she is awkward,
and can not break down the barriers to live outside her own world.
A fable of horror that avoids the psychological terrain to better capture
the visual, sound, and physical sensations of his character. From this
viewpoint, the film explores the use of a shoulder camera, scant illumination,
texturized image, and disconnected speech, generating a complex of lights
that preserves the irreducible mystery of the protagonists and of the
love that binds them.
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