Themroc

Themroc

classified 15 S

part of Restored & Rediscovered

Film

Sat 26 July 20:40

Bristol Megascreen (about 1 min walk from Watershed)

Director
Claude Faraldo
Cast
Michel Piccoli, Béatrice Romand, Marilù Tolo
Details
100 mins, Subtitled, 1973, France
Primary language
French

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.

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