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- 2012
- R
- Drafthouse Films
- 2 h 9 m
- 2012
- R
- Drafthouse Films
- 2 h 9 m
Summary Bullhead is a harrowing tale of revenge, redemption and fate. Domineering cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille, constantly pumped on steroids and hormones, initiates a shady deal with a notorious mafioso meat trader. When an investigating federal agent is assassinated and a woman from his traumatic past resurfaces, Jacky must confront his d...
Directed By: Michaël R. Roskam
Written By: Michaël R. Roskam
- 2012
- R
- Drafthouse Films
- 2 h 9 m
- 2012
- R
- Drafthouse Films
- 2 h 9 m
Bullhead
68
7.2
Where to Watch
Summary Bullhead is a harrowing tale of revenge, redemption and fate. Domineering cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille, constantly pumped on steroids and hormones, initiates a shady deal with a notorious mafioso meat trader. When an investigating federal agent is assassinated and a woman from his traumatic past resurfaces, Jacky must confront his d...
Directed By: Michaël R. Roskam
Written By: Michaël R. Roskam
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
68
63% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
33% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
68
63% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
33% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Bullhead is well-plotted, with a powerful ending, but its most brutal scene comes early, explaining why for Schoenaerts, life has been one long wince.
Writer-director Michael K. Roskam takes his time in revealing why Jacky needs to shoot up, but that LaMotta restlessness is unmistakable - this bull here can rage.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 40 User Ratings
7.2
73% Positive
29 Ratings
29 Ratings
20% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
8% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 40 User Ratings
7.2
73% Positive
29 Ratings
29 Ratings
20% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
8% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Great and intense! You can see the emotions and the tense plot. It is heartbreaking to see him suffer. The storyline is pitch perfect and would had been one of the best foreign language film!!! Don't think, do it! Watch it, now, or up! Your choice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Schoenaerts has the gift of being able to make inarticulateness expressive. Perhaps this is why, in moments, he seems to recall Brando and Dean.
I can tell you only that this is a film unlike anything I've seen before-harrowing, haunting and sordid. Be forewarned, it is not for the squeamish. But take a chance and you will be rewarded with a work of nightmarish force that is unforgettable.
Unlike most enforcers in the movies, Jacky isn't just a brainless slab of meat.
There seems to be a pretty good film lurking around inside Bullhead, which makes what we actually see on the screen all the more frustrating.
What Bullhead ultimately lacks isn't balls but insight and empathy.
It's an outstanding film. The lead character is so damaged, and you develop such sympathy for him. The trailer led me to believe he'd be some monster, but the flashbacks to his youth are uniquely heartbreaking, and you come to truly feel for the guy as he's doing his best to live a quasi-normal life given his circumstances. The supporting characters are fantastic. Even some stabs at light humor within the very heavy storyline are effective. The cadence of the film is right on the money.
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My final Febiofest screening of this Oscar-nominated Belgian film, a powerfully ravishing drama-crime blends a hidden atrocity in the past. The film owns an entangled and compelling script, sprinkling a few **** violence on screen, eliciting a fatalism presentiment and heroism boosting. From the beginning voiceover about the re-surface of some tucked-away secrets, the audience all anticipates the unraveling of the mystery, which turns out to be a frightful child trauma which prompts our protagonistâ
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Bullhead is a very unique Belgian gangster film involving the hormone mafia- a Flemish criminal consortium that supplies big commercial cattle ranchers with injections (some of which are very dangerous to health) that bring cows to full maturity (fat) in eight weeks instead of 10. The anti-hero of the film is a real bastard and completely unsympathetic-until we learn in a flashback a horrific event that has left him physically **** and emotionally crippled. There is plenty of suspense and some action but terrible beauty of the film is coming to grips with the psychological aspects of the antihero-especially in two key relationships-one with a friend who he was with he was injured-and one with a woman who he wants to be his â
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Esta pelÃcula presenta un guión original y con Ãl más o menos logra sacar la pelÃcula. Repito, la premisa es tan original que logra enganchar hasta el final. Al final la pelÃcula deja varias reflexiones en torno a la virilidad, la justicia, etc. Absolutamente recomendable.
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Not a good movie. I wish I could summarize my complete hatred toward this film within the confines of a paragraphs length, but alas, I am unable, and unwilling at that. Cliche characters, boring, unoriginal.
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Production Company
Savage Film,
Eyeworks Film & TV Drama,
Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds,
Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles,
The Film Kitchen,
Waterland Film & TV
Release Date Feb 17, 2012
Duration 2 h 9 m
Rating R
Website
http://www.rundskop.be/
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Magritte Awards, Belgium
• 4 Wins & 9 Nominations
Film Festival Oostende
• 6 Wins & 8 Nominations
