Cannibal Man - An Assassin's Week

Cannibal Man - An Assassin's Week (1972)
by Eloy de la Iglesia

Artus Films – April 19, 2022

Original Title : La Semana del asesino
Audio : Spanish 1.0
Subtitles : French
Duration : 108' ( 1h48 )
Format : Collector's Edition Blu-ray + DVD + Book
Area : B
Genre : Crime, Drama

Bruno's Recce
Here again, despite a whimsical French title, a huge Spanish film from the 70s by the no less essential and unknown Eloy de la Iglesia.

Synopsis
Employed in a meat cutting factory, Marcos lives alone between misery and depression, in his city of gray buildings, despite his girlfriend Paula. One evening when the two are kissing in the back seat of a taxi, the driver takes them out and slaps the young girl. Marcos kills him unintentionally. Paula pushing him to go to the police, he deletes her as well. But each new murder leads to a witness that Marcos must eliminate. He will thus find himself at the center of a murderous spiral from which he cannot escape.