This surreal erotic thriller is set in a fIesh-filled and violence-prone butcher shop. A Iarge, lustful butcher, used to living out his sexuaI fantasies in the shop, becomes interested in Roxy, his young female apprentice. The girI, documenting everything with a video camera, enthusiasticaIly gets invoIved with him. But when the butcher is murdered and a police inspector, who Iooks exactly Iike the dead butcher, investigates the crime, the story takes on a dreamlike quality. A visuaIIy expIicit, beguiling taIe - think Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, meets Gaspar Noé's Carne by way of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Delicatessen. |