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Carnage

2002 · 2h 10m · UNRATED Drama
Directed by Delphine Gleize

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Overview

After a bull is killed in a bullfight, its body parts are transported across Spain, France, Italy and Belgium. The bull's parts fall into the wide variety of people, including: an Italian actress selling the bones in a supermarket promotion, a Spanish woman who dines on its steaks, a little girl in France who imagines a world where animals are much larger than humans, and a taxidermist whose wife is simultaneously giving birth to quintuplets.

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Top critics, in their words

All reviews
78%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Despite its fleshy title, Gleize's film is a feast for the mind.

Marta Barber, Miami Herald
Fresh

Carnage has some narrative messiness. But the beautiful thing here - besides Gleize's fabulous eye - is that not a single one of her solutions for the healing that takes place in her characters' lives is predictable.

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
Rotten

The sort of film whose makers would be pleased to hear it called 'unclassifiable.' A more accurate description is 'unfathomable.'

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Fresh

Confidently directed and tightly constructed, Carnage announces the presence of a fresh, powerful directorial mind with each frame.

Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune
Fresh

With Carnage, a pungent tale of love and sacrifice, French filmmaker Delphine Gleize has fashioned a modest epic about our ridiculous human comedy.

Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times

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