Carne

Carne (1991) is a 38-minute French short film by Gaspar Noé that you can watch online on iFILM. Philippe Nahon plays a butcher raising a mute daughter alone; when he believes she has been assaulted, a single explosion of uncontrolled violence sets off a collapse from which there is no recovery.

Noé's debut is recognisably his: a handheld roughness, cuts that feel like blows, and a refusal to frame the central character as either sympathetic or simply monstrous. At under forty minutes it leaves little room to breathe, and does not intend to. Noé later expanded the story into the feature I Stand Alone (1998). Stream Carne (1991) online on iFILM.