Please note: This was screened in July 2025
“Themroc is about revolution, instinctive, destructive, sometimes uproariously funny revolution.” - Dilys Powell, Sunday Times
Rebelling against dull conformism, Michel Piccoli is mesmerising as a factory labourer suffering a meltdown and regressing to a caveman in this anarchic assault on bourgeois ideals.
Living at home with his mother, bachelor Themroc (the prolific Michel Piccoli) works as a factory labourer. Worn down by the relentless and brain-numbing tedium of his job and life, he suffers a catastrophic breakdown after a run-in with his boss which causes him to regress to a neanderthal state and proceeds to dismantle his world.
Made on a shoestring budget with no intelligible dialogue, French actor/scriptwriter/director Claude Faraldo’s cult taboo-busting satire about a French blue-collar worker-turned-urban caveman anarchically eviscerates mid-century labour and gender politics. Famed in the UK as the first film Channel 4 broadcast with its Red Triangle warning logo, intended for adults only; now this savage satire can be experienced again on the big screen, newly presented in a 4K restoration.
A 4K restoration from the original negative by StudioCanal c/o Radiance Films.
This film contains scenes of incest, cannibalism and sexual assault which may be triggering to some viewers.