Carnage (Used) - Used

Carnage, an example of what the French call un film chorale, tells several intertwining stories. In the central tale, a young second-generation bullfighter, Victor Julien Lescarret, is gored, and is rushed to the hospital in critical condition. A little girl, Winnie Raphaëlle Molinier, sits next to a massive Great Dane and watches the fateful bullfight on television, and becomes obsessed with the bull. A university researcher, Jacques Jacques Gamblin of Safe Conduct, cheats on his massively pregnant wife, Betty Lio, who hides a critical fact about her pregnancy from him. Jacques' brother, Luc Bernard Sens, an amateur taxidermist, lives with their mother, Rosie Esther Gorintin, who loves him, but withholds a family secret. Winnie's teacher, Jeanne Lucia Sanchez, struggles to understand her neurotic mother, Alicia Ángela Molina, when she visits. When her car is dented by a shopping cart, Carlotta Chiara Mastroianni, a struggling actress, meets Alexis Clovis Cornillac, a suicidal philosopher/skater who offers to lead her to the culprits. Carnage, the debut feature from writer/director Delphine Gleize, won the Sutherland Trophy at the 2002 London Film Festival and Best Screenplay at the 2002 Stockholm Film Festival. It was also shown at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and at Lincoln Center in New York as part of their 2003 Rendez-Vouz with French Cinema.