Intrus [The Intruder]

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REVISED TUESDAY, 17 JULY 2007, AT 11.57 HOURS

(c) A.J. Malouin 2007
(Rating: 5 by Al) (In our rating system, “1” is the Best, “31” is the Worst.)
(2004/France. Directed by Claire Denis) Here is a mysterious and Totally Beautiful film, in French primarily, with English subtitles. It tells the story of a 60-something year old man of questionable background, living on the French-Swiss border. We are led to believe he has probably had a James-bond kind of career. Now, living on the border alone with his two hound dogs, he finds that he has an ailing heart. Mysteriously, he elects to pay cash for a new heart…which he buys on the black market!!! The telling of the story here in this review is much more linear than the story on film. As an audience, we are NEVER quite sure what is going on. We are shown drug-sniffing dogs being trained for work on the Franco-Swiss border. We are shown groups of unidentified and unexplained men moving silently through the woods on the border. We are shown the launching of a large ship in an Asian shipyard which our mysterious man perhaps has bought as a gift for a son who may or may not show up in the film. We are shown the mysterious man’s neighbor, a beautiful woman who apparently raises dog-sled teams and is known only as the “Queen of the Northern Hemisphere.” As an audience, we have the impossible task of putting allllll this together in a totally meaningful way. We just cannot do this…and yet we just do not care. Whatever it IS that is going on, it is wonderful to watch. There are several highly disturbing scenes in the film: there’s a bloody human heart, cut out of the chest of a bloody woman, both of them lying in the snow, the heart being eaten by dogs; there’s the mysterious man slitting the throat of an intruder into his house; there’s the neck-to-belly stitched incision of the mysterious man, which we are shown repeatedly after his transplant. We have trouble figuring out who “the intruder” of the title is, and how all the elements of the story interrelate. The things that Claire Denis shows us, however — from the colourful streamers at the shipyard launching to the goldenly lit images of the mysterious man’s two dogs — are alllllllll so beautifully photographed that we are totally lost in a series of wonderfully rewarding images. The fact that we are lost, often totally lost, in the story, as well, is not even an issue. (2 hrs 10. Not rated in the USA. In French, English, Korean, Russian, with English subtitles. With Bambou as the Pharmacist, Lolita Chammah as The Wild Woman, Gregoire Colin as Sidney, Beatrice Dalle as the Queen of the Northern Hemisphere, Alex Descas as the Priest, Yekaterina Golubeva as the Young Russian Woman (as Katin Golubeva), Dong-ho Kim as the Ship Owner, Florence Loiret as Antoinette (as Florence Loriret-Caille), Hong-suk Park as the Man at the Fish Market, Michel Subor as Louis Trebor, and Anna Tetuaveroa as the Mother.)