Brightlyme i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

ElijahCSkuggs A modern man turning into a caveman, and it's not related to Encino Man? Count me in. The first time I heard about Themroc it immediately spoke to me. I find the idea of a person re-evolving back into his previous state pretty damn cool. And when you see the cover with Themroc screaming, you know this could be a pretty good movie. Actually it was a very good movie.If you haven't read anything about Themroc, the story is about a man who after years of the same daily routine is changing in a pretty bizarre way. His day usually starts this way: Wakes up, makes coffee, sees his mother(?) point at the clock telling him to get a move on, sees a girl (no idea the relation) naked, walks down his steps always passing the same attractive woman, rides his bike to work, hits the work locker room and begins his day. Well, the day starts off the same but Themroc(?) has this little cough going on, but isn't really a clue to him getting a cold, but actually the start of him reverting back to caveman ways. Eventually the cough turns into yells and groans. What follows is an entertaining look at how this modern caveman interacts with people and his surroundings.Going into Themroc I didn't know that much about how the story would play. I kinda expected a dark film with more violence, but what you really get is a dark comedy, with more sexual themes than violent ones. Unfortunately Themroc suffers from repetitiveness. The movie slightly drags in a few scenes, but since the movie's idea is so unique you're always expecting something surprising to happen. You do get a few nice surprises, but you also do feel a sense of repetition. Also the approach to showing a modern caveman in this manner would cause massive chaos and would be dealt with in a much more harsh manner. And during the film I thought to myself a lot that it's pretty unrealistic, but for the ending to work, it had to go this way. And that's fine with me.Themroc was well worth the wait. When he's making that change into the Caveman state, and he's about half way there, so he's groaning/grunting and yelling, but at the same time he's still attempting to be civilized. That stuff is pretty damn funny. Overall Themroc is a unique flick that most movie buffs should check out. It's entertaining, funny, well-acted and definitely different. If you get the chance to see this rare gem, check it out.

dbdumonteil That's what John Lennon once said.Themroc is would be avant-garde,but only for these who have a short memory.Take the beginning of the movie:these herds going to work ,the hero's tiny and seedy flat,they already were in King Vidor's "the crowd" (1928).Actually Claude Faraldo contents himself with recycling the most dated clichés of the post May 68 era:down with the bosses,power to the people,kill (and eat) the cops,this is a brand new life ,opportunity knocks,make love not war,we are the good guys,the others are the villains,please get out of the new road if you can't lend a hand,and so on.Spitting on the cops was so à la mode that Faraldo could not be wrong while speaking to the intellectual post 68 elite :humble people are actually demeaned in his film.How to attract people's attention?Which form should he use? That's Faraldo's lucky break!No form at all, a formless product.So it seems that he has filmed haphazardly,then asked his editor to work in a "surrealistic " way(He was not aware that Luis Bunuel had already done that ,as far as editing is concerned- un chien andalou (1928) l'âge d'or (1930);his movies were as subversive as Faraldo's ,and at a time when it was not that much trendy.Bunuel wasn't born to follow).People who like this -and they seem to be quite a lot- should catch Jacques Doillon 's "l'an 01",which deals with the same clichés,but which is less pretentious :it could be,relatively speaking,a seventies update of Jean Renoir's "la vie est à nous" (1936).

kcool I saw this movie back in the seventies and I can't forget it.This movie rules. I must be the best film I have ever seen. We are all animals, even if we chose to think of ourselves as something more divine than a common ape. Watch this movie and open your eyes.

Afracious The excellent Michel Piccoli (La Grande Bouffe; The Phantom of Liberty) plays Themroc. Themroc lives with his mother and sister in a depressing flat, where the monotonous silence is only broken by a cuckoo clock. Themroc's day begins with a bicycle ride to the railway station, then a train ride to his workplace. At his works, Themroc goes into a locker room with the other men. They then split into two groups; one group wearing white overalls, the other wearing yellow. Each overall has an image of a man painting on the back. The two groups then quarrel in gibberish, some even seem to be squabbling with their lockers. Work then begins. The men start to paint an iron fence. One of the groups use white paint, the other uses black (on the same fence.) Which colour wins? Themroc is then up a ladder, and caught peering through the window at his boss and secretary. His boss opens the window, and bangs Themroc on his nose, bloodying it. His boss demands to see him. He waits outside his office, and watches a man sharpening different coloured pencils. The pencils are put in two rows, one at the top, one at the bottom. The man sharpens the pencils from the top line, breaks the tip, then puts them on the bottom row.Themroc is fired by his boss. He goes into a toilet cubicle and grunts and growls loudly, like a mad dog. On his way home he enters a subway station. He walks down the line into the tunnel, howling at the passing trains. Themroc arrives home, and is greeted at the door by his sister, who has her breast showing. He fondles her, and she seems to like it. He then gets a sledgehammer and knocks a huge hole in the wall of his flat. He throws out his television and other appliances onto the forecourt below. He enters and leaves his flat via a rope ladder dangling from the hole. Soon, other neighbours start to knock holes in their walls too.The police eventually arrive, some in riot gear. Themroc and his sister throw anything they can find in the house at them in the forecourt below. The police throw tear gas cannisters in Themroc's flat, but he soon gets rid of them; and gleefully throws them back and forth with his neighbours, who are all now behaving like Themroc.The police then leave. Themroc manages to capture a policeman at night. He takes the officer to his flat, and then all the neighbours gather round, and cook and feast on him; although the carcass shown is amusingly a pig's. A builder then arrives at, and tries to build a wall over the hole. Themroc jests with him, and persuades him to kick it down after two layers are built. Throughout the film a man is polishing his car near the forecourt, almost oblivious to the proceedings. He now takes a sledgehammer and destroys his car. Themroc and his neighbours are all groaning loudly. The incessant banal rat race begins again.