Man Bites Dog (C'est Arrivé Pres de Chez Vous, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel og Benoit Poelvoorde; Belgium, 1992)

If the film's French title is translated it becomes "Coming to a Neighborhood Near You", which underscores the every-day method of the narrative. But the story and presentation are anything but ordinary.

The film follows two young filmmakers, André and Rémy, who are making a Cinema Verité -style documentary about the serial killer Ben. He's a funny, philosophical guy who just happens to go through a monthly murder routine and depends upon it as his sole source of income. When André and Rémy run out of money, Ben offers to finance the film.

It's this deeply black humour and rough satire that separates Man Bites Dog from most other film and was the main that it was a surprise hit and remains to this day highly controversial. It attakcs the responsibility of the media and the complicity of the viewer, who becomes no less guilty for the acts of violence than the killer Ben.