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Themroc Living at home with his mother, bachelor house painter Themroc (Michel Piccoli, Belle de Jour) leads a dull life. One day, after an unearned run-in with his boss, the usually docile Themroc rebels and dismantles his myopic world. Made on a shoestring budget with no intelligible dialogue, Claude Faraldo’s cult taboo-busting satire about a French blue-collar worker-turned-urban caveman anarchically eviscerates mid-century labour and gender politics. Never released on disc in the UK, Themroc may be familiar to British audiences from Channel 4's infamous Red Triangle showings, intended for adults only; now this savage satire can be seen again, newly presented on Blu-ray from a 4K restoration. LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES 4K Restoration from the original negative by StudioCanal Original uncompressed PCM mono audio Interview with critic David Thompson (2025, 23 mins) Interview with actor Michel Piccoli and director Claude Faraldo (1973, 18 mins) Interview with Manuela Lazic on Michel Piccoli (2025, 23 mins) Gallery Trailer Easter Egg Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sam Smith Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Alison Smith, author of French Cinema in the 1970s: The Echoes of May Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings Add all our May releases (The Rapacious Jailbreaker, Themroc, The Railroad Man and Shoot First, Die Later) to cart to receive 10% off. Discount automatically applied at cart. Ends March 5th. Themroc is also available in USA/Canada from our partners MVD, Diabolik, Orbit, Grindhouse, Rough Cut Canada and others Year: 1973 Country: France Cert: 15 Format: Blu-ray Region: AB RAD105BDLE EAN: 5060974682072 Release date: 19/05/25 “Themroc is about revolution, instinctive, destructive, sometimes uproariously funny revolution.” - Dilys Powell, Sunday Times “It’s as marvellous as it’s rare to see a film which is original in itself and serves to introduce a major new talent.” - George Melly, Observer “...something entirely out of the ordinary that extends our ideas a little about the possibilities of the cinema both as a means of artistic expression and as a force for change… Piccoli has never been better. The final orgy of love-making (more an expression of solidarity than of lust or erotics) may attract the attention of the festival of light and then the film would at once make the money it deserves” - Derek Malcolm, The Guardian
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Themroc (1973)
104 min
Themroc, a bachelor house painter living at home with his mother, leads a sad and colorless life. One day, after a run-in with his boss, he rebels. He wrecks his apartment, rejects every facet of bourgeois life, and begins acting like an urban, modern-day Neanderthal.