Made without proper language, just gibberish and grunts, this is an absurdist comedy about a man who rejects every facet of normal bourgeois life and turns his apartment into a virtual cave.
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Title: Themroc (1973)
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| Michel Piccoli | ... | Themroc | |
| Béatrice Romand | ... | La soeur de Themroc / Themroc's sister | |
| Marilù Tolo | ... | La secrétaire | |
| Francesca Romana Coluzzi | ... | La voisine / the neighbor | |
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Jeanne Herviale | ... | La mère de Themroc / Themroc's mother |
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Jean Aron | ||
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Paul Barrault | ||
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Romain Bouteille | ... | Un ouvrier / Le patron hargneux / Le voisin / Le flic-A Worker / The Surprising Boss / The Neighbor / The Cop |
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Stéphane Bouy | ... | Un ouvrier / Un policier |
| Coluche | ... | Le jeune voisin / Un ouvrier / Un flic | |
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Madeleine Damien | ||
| Patrick Dewaere | ... | Le maçon | |
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François Dyrek | ... | Un policier |
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Michel Fortin | ... | Un ouvrier / Un CRS |
| Henri Guybet | ... | Un ouvrier | |
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This extraordinary romp uses no language whatever, except gestures and grunts. When Themroc rebels against the dull conformity of his life with flamboyant anarchistic splendor, the whole world quickly goes howling mad. His day starts, as usual, when his mother more-or-less drags him out of bed and kicks him out the door to go to his factory job, which supports them all. At the factory, when he is called onto the carpet, he quits (but not before fondling the boss's secretary). Back at home, he makes love to his sister and then transforms the family's apartment into a more primitive abode. The conditions of the stone-age quickly return.
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brother sister incest | one breast exposed | bare breasts | woman on top | woman on top sex |Taglines:
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October 1980 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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I wonder why none of the reviews are attending us on that unforgettable, tragic last pictures of the movie: a deadly frozen world, their arms in vain stretched outside through the gaps in the prisoning wall; in silence lost screaming by human beings whose irrealism did not succeed in their hopeful but anarchistic fighting for an authentic natural life; caught back worse than ever before in a senseless but common life: our daily world without real communicative language. The movie is a great piece of art, a forceful protest, biting but humorous as well, against an inhumane way of one-dimensional existing. Yes, in the spirit of those years, the seventies (Marcuse!); but transcending that time in deeply moving images, a huge everlasting metaphor of human existence in a world of scattered hope for Sense and Quality.