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12 January 2009
The Green Butchers
(2003) SBS, 10pmSvend and Bjarne work as apprentice butchers for an employer who represents the worst of the old system - a cleaver of meat who would undoubtedly embrace, with ardent enthusiasm, the WorkChoices regime promoted by the previous government. Deeply disillusioned but determined to succeed in their trade, they decide to open their own butchery - organic, of course. But there's a snag, as it were. No cash. So Bjarne instructs the doctors to switch off the life-support system that sustains his comatose twin brother - a long-term hospital patient after a serious car accident. With the brother mort, he inherits the family fortune and their butchery is soon up and running. Trouble is, it doesn't attract customers. One day Svend finds a man's corpse behind the shop - another accident victim. When their former boss visits the shop, looking for certain cuts to fulfil a large order, Svend hacks off one of the corpse's legs, marinates it and sells it. Payback! But no! The special order is a hit and customers begin to arrive wanting similar cuts. The old Sweeney Todd formula: "They wouldn't have a clue!" as the two blue-collar dudes say in the pie commercial. Svend responds by killing itinerants and slicing up their bodies. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the partners, the twin brother is alive and wandering about in a semi-comatose state, looking for Bjarne. Meat City! More black than green, the comedy has an acceptable deadpan tenor and is often macabre but never gross.The Big Fix (1978) ABC1, 11.55pmSusan Anspach has the unenviable task of starring in this drama opposite Richard Dreyfuss - the archetypal, arteriosclerotic hero unable to abandon the failed fantasies of the 1960s. It's a too clever-by-half story about an industrial investigator who fancies himself as a private eye and falls into the inevitable web of political intrigue. The film's considerable potential is enhanced by its ideas, by Anspach and by strong performances from John Lithgow and Bonnie Bedelia. Ultimately, it suffers defeat as a consequence of Dreyfuss's reckless intensity and chronic overindulgence. If there was an Oscar for rabid ego he'd be a contender every time.Carnage(2002) SBS, 11.45pmClovis Cornillac, recently seen in Sky Fighters and Tiger Brigades, turns up in this unusual film that revolves around notions of chance and coincidence. During an afternoon's sport in southern Spain, a bullfighter is gored badly by a bull, which is later rewarded for its efforts with slaughter. A lot of bulls die in the ring and their carcases are not wasted. While the matador lies in a coma, the animal's body parts find their way to different parts of the country - and even to France. Lucie, Henri and their epileptic, death-obsessed daughter, Winnie, purchase one of the bones at a butcher shop (not Green), for their great dane. Another bone, sold by a French supermarket to Carlotta, a struggling Italian actress (Chiara Mastroianni), precipitates her downfall.
