Jacky Vanmarsenille (Matthias Schoenaerts of The Pack) is a hulking cattle farmer who has grown up able to relate to his animals more than the people around him. That’s not to say he’s an animal lover; he routinely pumps his stock full of illegal hormones that he gets through the extensive black market his family has been involved with since the generation before, in an effort to fatten them up quicker and make the big bucks faster. An intimidating figure surrounded by sleazy gangsters and unconscientious meat-men, Jacky is not living the quiet life usually associated with stockmen: his is a fast-paced world full of shady deals and clandestine activities not limited to the meat-trade – there’s also a stolen car racket, an adolescent smut mag racket and even a human hormone underground – the latter being the one Jacky viagra now benefits from most personally.

But when the murder of a policeman who has been closing in on the hormone mafia brings all these threads together with Jacky at the center, he finds himself us discount viagra overnight delivery face to face with painful memories from his past that are more devastating than anything a police raid will bring down on him. With an overload of artificial testosterone regularly running through his system, Jacky is a walking time-bomb far removed from the wide-eyed, scrawny kid he once was. But to characterize Bullhead as a crime film would be misleading. The power of this film sneaks up on you; as little bits of information are revealed concerning the characters’ relationships with one another, a horrifying picture of lifelong trauma emerges. Suddenly everything makes sense.

The first feature from writer/director Michaël Roskam is both a genre-bender and a gender-bender; what starts off as a depiction of alienating machismo becomes an empathic portrait of cialis generic drug a man fighting against psychological wounds that no amount of injected testosterone can fix.

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BULLHEAD has its North American Premiere on July 15^th at 9:20 pm and screens again on July 20^th at 5:20pm, both in the Salle JA DeSeve. More info on the film page HERE.

About the author:

Kier-La Janisse

Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).