High concept trash if you may. On the surface an artsy but disgusting and oppressive exploitation that I hate and love at the same time, however, a natural progression toward Foucaultian philosophy and beyond for someone who has been so occupied with bodies and power structures in her cinema. Denis is a master.
Inorganic reproduction, lower class citizens and animals treated as weak and expendable confined into a literal concrete cube. There is none of the sexiness related to technological…