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Dimitri Doré

Jean-Luc Vincent

Roman Villedieu

Vincent Le Port

In 1905, French seminarian Bruno Reidel is found guilty of murdering a child. At the request of the doctors observing him, he writes his memoirs to explain his action.

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In 1976,René Allio released &quot;Moi Pierre Rivière ,ayant égorgé ma mère ,mon frère et ma soeur &quot;( = having slit mother ,brother and sister) which could have been subtitled &quot;anatomy of a murder&quot;. It&apos; was a true story which happened in the rural Normandie in the nineteenth century .

Waiting for his trial,he wrote a manuscript where he told the whole story.

Pierre was a complex character,whose behavior thoroughly eluded the viewer. He considered his family crude uneducated peasants.

Pierre&apos;s report was stunning: the style is perfect,using a very refined French,most of the verbs in the past historic(Passé Simple) a tense which increased the distance between Pierre and the events he depicted.

What am I driving at? Simply that there are strong analogies between Pierre and Bruno ;all that I wrote about the former can apply to the latter with a notable difference : Pierre was not taught in an elite school like Bruno : the petit séminaire :the minor seminary was a secondary school (junior and high school) that would train both future seminarians for the major seminary and students who would remain lay(now obsolete,it was important through 1930 ). As Bruno &apos;s family could not afford the price of the studies , this religious school was the only way for him to carry on with his studies .

But it was then and it is now;today , words like &quot;masturbation&quot; can be used without offending anyone ;at the time ,it was considered a deadly sin ,guaranteed to send you to Hell;abused when he was hardly a teenager , Bruno is a clever proud young man ,with a philosophy close to Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche&apos;s he never read ;he feels his superiority and a love/hate relationship develops between him ,a poor peasant and the proud clever handsome young bourgeois he meets ; he feels the space between them and he wants to become their equal and more ; like both gay students in Hitchcock&apos;s &quot;rope&quot; , Fleischer&apos;s &quot;compulsion&quot; ,and more precisely Tom Kalin&apos;s &quot;swoon&quot;(Loeb and Leopold) sex leads him to crime ;he wants to own them ,like a man possesses a woman (or another man);to act is to kill ,for he realizes that a sexual intercourse won&apos;t satisfy him more than onanism (he self-abuses eight times a day)he&apos;s ashamed of

To write that &quot;Bruno Reidal &quot; came aside as a shock in a French cinema lost in trite love stories, feel good, indifferent thrillers and coarse comedies ,is to state the obvious; almost entirely told in a neuter voice over ,in a style close to Bresson (there are few really horrible scenes , the economy of means is remarkable) ,it&apos;s the kind of film you won&apos;t forget .

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In 1976,René Allio released "Moi Pierre Rivière ,ayant égorgé ma mère ,mon frère et ma soeur "( = having slit mother ,brother and sister) which could have been subtitled "anatomy of a murder". It' was a true story which happened in the rural Normandie in the nineteenth century .

Waiting for his trial,he wrote a manuscript where he told the whole story.

Pierre was a complex character,whose behavior thoroughly eluded the viewer. He considered his family crude uneducated peasants.

Pierre's report was stunning: the style is perfect,using a very refined French,most of the verbs in the past historic(Passé Simple) a tense which increased the distance between Pierre and the events he depicted.

What am I driving at? Simply that there are strong analogies between Pierre and Bruno ;all that I wrote about the former can apply to the latter with a notable difference : Pierre was not taught in an elite school like Bruno : the petit séminaire :the minor seminary was a secondary school (junior and high school) that would train both future seminarians for the major seminary and students who would remain lay(now obsolete,it was important through 1930 ). As Bruno 's family could not afford the price of the studies , this religious school was the only way for him to carry on with his studies .

But it was then and it is now;today , words like "masturbation" can be used without offending anyone ;at the time ,it was considered a deadly sin ,guaranteed to send you to Hell;abused when he was hardly a teenager , Bruno is a clever proud young man ,with a philosophy close to Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's he never read ;he feels his superiority and a love/hate relationship develops between him ,a poor peasant and the proud clever handsome young bourgeois he meets ; he feels the space between them and he wants to become their equal and more ; like both gay students in Hitchcock's "rope" , Fleischer's "compulsion" ,and more precisely Tom Kalin's "swoon"(Loeb and Leopold) sex leads him to crime ;he wants to own them ,like a man possesses a woman (or another man);to act is to kill ,for he realizes that a sexual intercourse won't satisfy him more than onanism (he self-abuses eight times a day)he's ashamed of

To write that "Bruno Reidal " came aside as a shock in a French cinema lost in trite love stories, feel good, indifferent thrillers and coarse comedies ,is to state the obvious; almost entirely told in a neuter voice over ,in a style close to Bresson (there are few really horrible scenes , the economy of means is remarkable) ,it's the kind of film you won't forget .

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