Blood of the Beasts
Synopsis
Franju's film contrasts peaceful scenes of Parisian suburbia with scenes from a slaughterhouse. The film documents the slaughtering and butchering of horses, cattle, and sheep. The film is narrated without emotive language.
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- Executive Producer : Forces et Voix de la France
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producer : Paul Legros
- Screenwriter : Georges Franju
- Director of Photography : Marcel Fradetal
- Music Composer : Joseph Kosma
- Assistant Director : André Joseph
- Editor : André Joseph
- Production Manager : Fred Orain
- Narration Writer : Jean Painlevé
- Narrators : Nicole Ladmiral, Georges Hubert
- Still Photographer : Patrice Molinard
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- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Report
- Themes : Fauna, Death
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
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Franju states that he wasn't interested in the subject of slaughterhouses when he decided to make the film, but the location around the building was the Ourcq Canal allowing him to make a documentary film. Franju stated by using a documentary film format, he was able to use both locations as lyrical counterpoints and "to explain it as a realist while remaining a surrealist by displacing the object in another context. In this new setting, the object rediscovers its quality as an object".
Blood of the Beasts was made as a black and white film as an aesthetic. Franju states "If it were in colour, it'd be repulsive... the sensation people get would be physical one.
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