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Released after being imprisoned for assault, a Frenchman finds himself impoverished, alienated and angry. His life and mind begins to breakdown as he lashes out against various factions of society while attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
1 October 1910, Paris, France
3 August 1966
24 December 1938, Paris, France
April 03, 2001
Noe deserves credit for a cinematic vision which is remarkably his own.
May 07, 2003
...I Stand Alone will not easily be forgotten - and in this day and age, that's an incredibly rare thing.
June 30, 2002
Certainly, there are aesthetic pleasures in I Stand Alone, but they don't redeem the depraved heart that beats at the center of the film.
February 10, 2015
[VIDEO ESSAY] "I Stand Alone" (Gaspar Noé's feature debut) is as much a philosophical denunciation of humanity as it is a thought-provoking treatise on mental illness (as a socially communicable disease).
November 02, 2001
Surprisingly sensitive as well as genuinely shocking.
January 01, 2000
The real violence here, the far more deeply disturbing violence, is the violence inside the mind of the protagonist.
April 03, 2001
For all the static bleakness of his movies, Noe does have a sinful sense of play.
January 03, 2005
Vomit.
June 05, 2001
More of a young turk provocation than a measured and mature intercession on rage and despair, but it certainly achieves the unsettling effect Noe intended.
