CARRÉ BLANC World Cinema

One of the strongest debuts in years, CARRE BLANC is a dystopian sci-fi vision of a world with limited resources and limitless cruelty. Suicide is so prevalent in this society that nets are strung up around high-rises and loudspeakers encourage citizens to have children, since most people have stopped doing so The film begins with a gruesome revelation: The remains of the dead are being ground up as meat and served to the living (via Big Mac-like burgers) A boy is taken from his home and delivered to a state-run orphanage where he is systematically shaped into the adult society wants him to be . When we see him later in life, he is fully integrated into the machinery of society and is, in fact, one of its cruelest cogs . Four years in the making, this outlandish film paints a scathing vision of the path down which modern society might easily be heading.