Wed, Oct 31 / 9 pm
Directed by Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor
2017, USA/France, 90 min
Japanese with English subtitles
A new documentary from the pioneering filmmakers behind Leviathan, Caniba reflects on the discomfiting significance of cannibalistic desire in human existence through the prism of a Japanese man, and his mysterious relationship with his brother. As a 32-year-old student at the Sorbonne in Paris, Issei Sagawa was arrested in 1981 when spotted emptying two bloody suitcases containing the remains of his classmate, Renée Hartevelt. Two days earlier, Mr. Sagawa had killed Hartevelt and began eating her. Declared legally insane, he returned to Japan. He has been a free man ever since. Ostracized from society, he has made his living off his crime by writing novels, drawing manga, appearing in innumerable documentaries and sexploitation films in which he re-enacts his crime, and has even become a food critic. In an attempt to fathom the motives behind his cannibalism, the filmmakers visit Sagawa at his home.
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GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY THE GIMLI FILM FESTIVAL.
