Themroc

1973 [FRENCH]

Comedy

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 77% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 77% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 1765 1.8K

absurdism

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Plot summary

Themroc, a bachelor house painter living at home with his mother, leads a sad and colorless life. One day, after a run-in with his boss, he rebels. He wrecks his apartment, rejects every facet of bourgeois life, and begins acting like an urban, modern-day Neanderthal.

Director

Claude Faraldo Photo
Claude Faraldo

Top cast

Michel Piccoli Photo
Michel Piccoli as Themroc
Miou-Miou Photo
Miou-Miou as La jeune voisine
Francesca Romana Coluzzi Photo
Francesca Romana Coluzzi as La voisine / the neighbor
Popeck Photo
Popeck as Le tailleur de crayons
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961.28 MB
1280*768
French 2.0
NR
fr  
25 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 6
1.74 GB
1800*1080
French 2.0
NR
fr  
25 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ElijahCSkuggs 8 / 10

I feel a cough coming on.

Reviewed by Bunuel1976 7 / 10

THEMROC (Claude Faraldo, 1973) ***

This is mainly noted for having no intelligible dialogue throughout: given its considerable length (105 minutes) and essential plotlessness, though, the series of grunts, growls, groans and other gibberish uttered by all the characters involved does become wearying after a while. Nevertheless, it's a good example of the risks that film-makers were willing to take (and generally manage to pull off) during this most creative era in World Cinema; curiously enough, for being virtually a Silent film with barely established characters, this has one of the longest cast lists I've ever seen! THEMROC revolves around a laborer (Michel Piccoli) who goes berserk after getting the sack from work: he sleeps with his sister and destroys his apartment and, after the initial astonishment, his neighbors get the same anarchic bug. This streak of non-conformism also extends to sex (with plenty of non-graphic nudity on display), as Piccoli contrives to elicit uninhibited behavior from many of the females (be they nubile or frustrated) around him – including the secretary, Marilu' Tolo, he had been caught unwittingly peeping on and subsequently seduced. Despite the occasional brutality, police intervention in the matter largely proves ineffectual. Though the point of it all is obscure – unless it's that one needs to revert to some form of primeval state in order to survive the exigencies of the modern world – a handful of situations which crop up are definitely amusing: Piccoli and policeman Patrick Dewaere engaging in a tit-for-tat routine while the latter is rebuilding the façade of his apartment; feeling liberated, a victimized wife tries to assert herself and finally escapes her husband's tyranny through the window when he's not looking; a man spends practically the entire film lovingly washing his car but, then, at the very end he joins in the chaos by nonchalantly taking a sledge-hammer to it. Still, when all is said and done, the best thing about the film is its extraordinary fragmented editing.
Reviewed by matthew-54

They don't make them like this anymore

A great film. Woefully cheap. Blissfully purposeful. Knows exactly what it thinks and says it with brutal clarity and biting humour, all shot in a ragged verité style that seems strangely contemporary. A factory worker goes off his trolley, throws society's rulebook out of the window and reverts to being a caveman. And that's about it - talk about a high concept! There's no dialogue, only gibberish and grunts, but, incredibly, it works. It's easy not to like this film, but hard not to be impressed by it. Check it out for yourself and see.
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