Restricted to children under 16, a huge box office flop, this cannibal film needs to be discovered immediately

It’s truly an authentic masterpiece that deserves to be better known, becoming iconic over the years. Directed by the late Antonia Bird, who left us ten years ago, Voras was released in France in the early summer of 1999 to general indifference, barely attracting 25,000 viewers.

In the United States, it was an absolute smash: grossing just over $2 million in the United States, for a $12 million budget. In France, it was not even suspected that Twentieth Century Fox would release the film on DVD until a fan petition took care of the release request. It can be said at which point fate was merciless on the film.

Especially since the backstage performance was particularly busy. “It was very difficult to shoot” We also told us about the always excellent Guy Pearce, who was in Paris in 2012 to promote Lock Out when we asked him about Voras.

“The decisions were political. We want to rebel and install a third director, Antonia. It landed after shooting for the first 15 days. Fox wanted to oblige. Michael Nyman“.

Among the reasons for the film’s dismal failure in theaters: the inability of the studio’s marketing department to properly market the film with forceps at the box. is it a western In a sense yes, but not only. An authentic horror movie? Obviously yes, but that would be too simplistic. A political film? absolutely. All this at once? Of course. a gluttonAn unclassifiable work that combines several genres does not belong to one in particular.

Tell me who you eat, I’ll tell you who you are

Against the backdrop of the 1846-1848 war between Mexico and the United States. a glutton Also evokes the famous novelty from the conquest of the West. This is the tragedy of Donner Passage. In the winter of 1847-1848, a group of emigrants on their way to California found themselves in an isolated region difficult to reach due to snow. After running out of food, then eating their teams and wheels, the emigrants devoured the bodies of their dead…

Filled with especially brutal black humor, moments of pure fear, amazing shots (Guy Pearce’s fall into a cliff, which we still wonder about filming), scored music that is both awkward and terrifying, signed by the tandem of Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn, a glutton It also benefits from a titanic cast: Robert Carlyle, absolutely brilliant in the film, Guy Pearce, Geoffrey Jones, David Arquette or even Neal McDonough.

We’ll save the best for last: the cannibalism incited (and displayed) in the film is far from a purely political challenge. Because America was built by devouring its own children. “Tell me who you eat, I’ll tell you who you are” announced the film’s French poster tagline. It seems pretty good. Also, as Colonel Ives, played by Robert Carlyle, would say: “Eat deliciously!” If you have a strong stomach, of course.