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Wounded Man (The)
- Director: Patrice Chéreau
- Writer: Hervé Guibert; Patrice Chéreau
- Producer: Claude Berri; Marie-Laure Reyre
CGiii Comment
This is so desperately bleak that you would be forgiven in thinking that the world of men has descended into a rabid depravity.
It's a masochistic chasing of desire no matter how grubby that desire is...grim.
The film looks fithy - you will feel the need to shower afterwards. So sordid, so violent that it will attack the core of decency.
This is an underworld, akin to Last Tango, where the misguided and manipulated reside - enter at your own risk - it's not pretty.
Chéreau captures the sleaziness - he gets extraordinary performances from his actors and, ultimately, produces a film that will make you thank what little you have: namely, sanity.
Intense and unflinching.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
A young man discovers his homosexuality and begins a relationship with a manipulative huster/petty criminal that he meets at a train station.
Cast & Characters
Jean-Hugues Anglade as Henri;
Vittorio Mezzogiorno as Jean Lerman;
Roland Bertin as Bosmans;
Lisa Kreuzer as Elisabeth;
Claude Berri as Le client;
Hammou Graïa as Le jeune homme de la gare;
Gerard Desarthe as L'homme qui pleure;
Armin Mueller-Stahl as Le pere d'Henri;
Annick Alane as La mere d'Henri;
Sophie Edmond as La soeur;
Maria Verdi;
Suzanne Chavance;
Roland Chalosse;
Eddy Roos;
Charly Chemouny