Archive of films Caniba / Caniba

France
2017, 90 min

Section: Imagina
Year: 2018

While studying in France in the 1980s, Issei Sagawa shot his roommate, raped her corpse, and then began to eat it. Shot in extreme closeups that elicit feelings of revulsion, the documentary takes the viewer on an anthropological journey to the very limits of humanity, to a world of forbidden desire, fetish, and morality twisted beyond recognition.


Synopsis

In their fifth joint feature film venture, the creators of Leviathan and somniloquies submit a claustrophobic and disturbing portrait of Japanese cannibal Issei Sagawa. He achieved notoriety in the 1980s as a student in France who shot his roommate, raped her corpse, and then began to eat it. Nearly 70, the now severely disabled man, who is cared for by his brother, returns to his crime with the filmmakers, reliving his untamed desires and outlining his hopes for the future. Shot in extreme closeups that elicit feelings of revulsion, the picture takes the viewer on an anthropological journey to the very limits of humanity, to a world of forbidden desire, fetish, and morality twisted beyond recognition.

Hubert Poul

About the director

Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Verena Paravel (b. 1971, Neuchâtel, Switzerland), Lucien Castaing-Taylor (b. 1966, Liverpool). Joint filmography: Leviathan (2012), He Maketh a Path to Shine After Him; One Would Think the Deep to Be Hoary (2013), Nature morte (2013), Ah Humanity! (2015), somniloquies (2017), Caniba, 2017

Contacts

Elle Driver
44, Rue Blanche, 750 09, Paris
France
Tel: +33 156 434 870
Fax: +33 145 614 608
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.elledriver.fr

About the film

Color, DCP

Section: Imagina
   
Director: Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Dir. of Photography: Patrick Lindenmaier
Editor: Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Producer: Valentina Novati, Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Production: Norte Productions, S.E.L
Sales: Elle Driver
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