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C'est arrivé près de chez vous (1992)
Country of Origin: Belgium
Year of Production: 1992
Running Times: 92 mins (USA) 95 mins (France; Spain)
Length:
Format: 16mm
Colour Format: black and white
Ratio:
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Les Artistes Anonyme
Producer: Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde
SCRIPT
Script: Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde, Vincent Tavier
DIRECTION
Director: Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde
Assistant Director: Vincent Tavier
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: André Bonzel
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Rémy Belvaux, Eric Dardill
MUSIC
Music: Jean-Marc Chenut, Laurence Dufrene
LOCATIONS
Locations: Brussels, Belgium; Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium; Namur, Belgium
CAST
Benoît Poelvoorde (Ben)
Jacqueline Poelvoorde-Pappaert (Ben's mother)
Nelly Pappaert (Ben's grandmother)
Hector Pappaert (Ben's grandfather)
Jenny Drye (Jenny)
Malou Madou (Malou)
Willy Vandenbroeck (Boby)
Rachel Deman (Mamie Tromblon)
André Laime (bed-ridden old man)
Edith Lemerdy (nurse)
Sylviane Godé (rape victim)
Zoltan Tobolik (rape victim's husband)
Valérie Parent (Valerie)
Alexandra Fandango (Kalifa)
Olivier Cotica (Benichou)
Rémy Belvaux (Remy)
André Bonzel (Andre)
Jean-Marc Chenut (Patrick)
Alain Oppezzi (Franco)
Vincent Tavier (Vincent)
Gina Cotica (mother)
Ricardo Cotica (child)
Pierre Vanbraekel (father)
Marcel Engels (cameraman)
Franco Piscopo (sound recordist)
Venelin Poikov (1st postman)
Alain François (video reporter)
Fernaud Dubois (postman)
Antoine Chapelot (wine waiter)
Hughes Tavier (buffet waiter)
Pol Vanderwarren (Ben's lawyer)
Paul Bottemanne (taxi driver)
Vincent Merveille (boxer)
Irene Gilissen (lady on train)
Sabine Tavier (Madame Pipi)
Annamaria Szomolanyiova (violinist)
Carlos Campo Miranda (night watchman)
Pascal Lebrun, Stephanie Aubier, Alain Hologne, Micheline Hologne, Philippe
Blasband, Aldo Fostier, Jean-Pol Cavillot, Anny Nologne, Elaine Leonard,
Marie Travier, Bruno Belvaux, Lucien Belvaux, Jean-Claude Maschetti,
Gouyon David (uncredited) (featured victims)
Anne LaGrange, Laurence D'Hondt, Daniel Tursh, Benoît Mariage, Emmanuelle
Bada, Stéphane Aubier (journalists)
Jean-Paul Geets (Malou's customer)
Clotilde Francois, Steven Artels, Bertrand Tavier, Bob Lens, Josephs
Craeynest, Willy Van De Waele, Andre Kuys, Patrick Goisse (victims in
montage)
PLOT SUMMARY
A camera crew is following serial killer Ben as he wanders around a
city killing randomly, all the while treating them to extended treatises
on the natures of music, society and art. As the crew get to know their
subject better, they find themselves seduced by Ben's madness and start
to join in his horrendous crimes...
CAPSULE REVIEW
An astonishing black comedy that manages to get laughs from some of
the grimest subjects imaginable. Benoît Poelvoorde is outstanding as
the pretentious serial killer Ben, whose seemingly random and unprovoked
bursts of extreme violence are contrasted with his thoughtful pontifications
on a number of subjects. The laughing tends to stop abruptly during
the horrific rape scene, one of the nastiest ever filmed. The black-and-white,
hand-held faux-documentary camerawork predates and predicts that used
in The Blair
Witch Project (1999).
AVAILABILITY
France
DVD Distributor: Polygram (087 840-2)
Spain
Theatrical Distributor: Oro Films S.A.
UK
Laserdisc Distributor: Tartan (TVL 1074 - includes the short film Pas
4 pour Daniel)
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Roxie Releasing
Laserdisc Distributor: Criterion (CC 1376L)
DVD Distributor: Tartan Video (TVD3308 - includes: the short film Pas
de C4 Pour Daniel Daniel; stills gallery; review)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: R
Finland
Rating: K-18
Germany
Rating: 18
Netherlands
Rating: 16
New Zealand
Rating: R18
Norway
Rating: 18
Spain
Rating: 18
Sweden
Rating: banned
UK
Rating: 18
USA
Rating: NC-17
AWARDS
1992
Catalonian International Film Festival, Sitges, Spain
Best Actor (Benoît Poelvoorde) - winner
Best Film (Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde) - winner
Toronto International Film Festival
Metro Media Award (Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde) -
winner
1993
French Syndicate of Cinema Critics
Best Foreign Film (Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde - tied
with Qiu Ju da guan si (1992)) - winner
TIMELINE
1992
September
12: Canada - shown at the Toronto Film Festival
November
4: France - theatrical release
December
30: Spain - theatrical release
1993
February
11: Netherlands - theatrical release
March
25: Germany - theatrical release
May
27: Australia - theatrical release
July
19: UK - laserdisc release (Tartan (TVL 1074))
October
8: Finland - theatrical release
1994
June
10: Portugal - theatrical release
1996
June
Day Unknown: UK - laserdisc release (Tartan (TVL 1074))
2000
October
9: USA - DVD release (Tartan Video (TVD3308))
2001
October
7: UK - television broadcast (on FilmFour)
POSTER TAGS
A Killer Comedy
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Man Bites Dog - English language title
LINKS
SEE ALSO
The Blair Witch Project
(1999)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Sight and Sound January 1993
credits, review
BOOKS
Killing For Culture pp.93-96, 335
review, credits
The BFI Companion to Crime pp.75-76
review
KEYWORDS
fake documentary, serial killers, flutes, microphones, racism, rape,
child murder, children, satire
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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