If you want to give up meat or have trouble remaining on a meat-free diet, then this movie might help you out -- if by "help" you mean fill you with a disgust and horror that makes you swear off meat forever.
It's a documentary about three of Paris' slaughterhouses in 1949: one devoted to horses, the second to cattle and the last to sheep. Each time, we see some peaceful or interesting setting, and then move within the gates of the abbatoir, and watch the animals being slaughtered. Yes, there's lots of blood and twitching and offal, which makes a dedicated carnivore like me raise his eyebrows. But what can you expect from the director of EYES WITHOUT A FACE but something like Grand Guignol?
Franju did not start out as a film maker. While he made his first documentary short in 1934, for the next fifteen years, he worked from Henri Langlois in getting the Cinematecque Francaise started.
It's a documentary about three of Paris' slaughterhouses in 1949: one devoted to horses, the second to cattle and the last to sheep. Each time, we see some peaceful or interesting setting, and then move within the gates of the abbatoir, and watch the animals being slaughtered. Yes, there's lots of blood and twitching and offal, which makes a dedicated carnivore like me raise his eyebrows. But what can you expect from the director of EYES WITHOUT A FACE but something like Grand Guignol?
Franju did not start out as a film maker. While he made his first documentary short in 1934, for the next fifteen years, he worked from Henri Langlois in getting the Cinematecque Francaise started.