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- 2023
- Greenwich Entertainment
- 2 h 17 m
- 2023
- Greenwich Entertainment
- 2 h 17 m
Summary An expatriate French couple (Denis Ménochet and Marina Foïs) operate an organic farm in the Spanish countryside. However, their earnest enthusiasm reeks of patronizing privilege to the handful of “hill people” families who have toiled on the land for generations. Tensions between locals and foreigners boil over in this edge-of-your-seat ...
Directed By: Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Written By: Isabel Peña, Rodrigo Sorogoyen
- 2023
- Greenwich Entertainment
- 2 h 17 m
- 2023
- Greenwich Entertainment
- 2 h 17 m
The Beasts
7.3
Where to Watch
Summary An expatriate French couple (Denis Ménochet and Marina Foïs) operate an organic farm in the Spanish countryside. However, their earnest enthusiasm reeks of patronizing privilege to the handful of “hill people” families who have toiled on the land for generations. Tensions between locals and foreigners boil over in this edge-of-your-seat ...
Directed By: Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Written By: Isabel Peña, Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
85
100% Positive
17 Reviews
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0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
85
100% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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There is not much more you can ask of a film than that it provides you with another perspective, a new angle to look at old problems. The Beasts does that.
The sensation of observing these details fold into one another and unfold as a narrative isn’t that far off from turning the pages of a novel, or even a newspaper; that’s the journalistic effect of Sorogoyen’s filmmaking.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 User Ratings
7.3
75% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
15% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
10% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 User Ratings
7.3
75% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
15% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
10% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
As bestas es una película que a priori, en tu primer visionado, puede parecerte poco dinámica, con un ritmo muy lento y sobretodo, un tercer acto completamente alejado de lo que parecía la película durante casi las dos primeras horas. A pesar de ello, una vez pasan los días, las semanas, puede que los meses, llegas a pensar en ella de una manera distinta.
Y al intentar ser completamente objetivo, vuelves a verla, y experimentas lo que es. Una película bellísima, con un trasfondo muy realista y conmovedor. Puede que no convenza a nadie puesto que en mi opinión, hay que verla dos veces para verdaderamente apreciarla. Pero si puedes apreciar toda su belleza en su primer visionado,(como conozco gente que le ha pasado) la disfrutarás como comento. Actuaciones, escenarios y secuencias realistas. Una historia importante. Una historia impecable. Rodrigo apunta alto.
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A tense and relevant thriller about how money brings out the worst in people. An uncompromising look at the harsh life in the Spanish countryside. The first part is all about confrontation, while the second one deals with grief. Top-notch acting and a great screenplay.
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The film’s big scene is upsetting and unforgettable, one of those movie moments you can’t unsee and which seems destined to haunt you for years to come.
A small-scale tragedy about arrogant intolerance and self-centeredness that’s at once highly specific and, more depressing still, universal.
Some of that tension dissipates in a more low-key third act that foregrounds the excellent Foïs and Colomb as a mother and daughter at loggerheads, but The Beasts is still a compelling, tragic study of human conflict in a scarily believable context.
The film is as much about the beastliness of outmoded machismo as it is about the perseverance and fortitude of women in opposition to it.
If you can forgive its facile villains, The Beasts’ well-shaken cocktail of realism and naturalism offers as many sublime scenes as it does provocative questions.
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Despite the accolades I feel compelled to warn you that this is a terribly paced film, with a running time well over two hours but with a story that could be conveyed easily in an hour episode — really over one beer in a Spanish pub. The cast is strong, the natural scenery great, and the story is completely credible. But the dim lighting, artistic password for a creepy Euro-thriller, as well as a lack of incident for its length, combine to make it not worth a foray to the local Bijou. Thematically, the story arguably works, too, but there’s no new take on the circumstances. The plot is an old one, so one’s patience is doubly taxed for no real payoff.
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(Mauro Lanari)
Inspired by a story of 2010 crime news and irrelevant like those with which journalists fill their vacuous spaces, Sorogoyen cannot go beyond the misanthropic jeremiad already swept away by I don't know how many scholars, from natural selection as a law that vexes the entire cosmos and not only the biological area of Darwinian relevance (1859) to the biblical exegesis of Ricœur that since 1965 demonstrates that evil comes up to us as an unrefusable inheritance. Already in the inorganic, the Sun is a dwarf star that in about 5 billion years will expand to incorporate, engulf, swallow, parasitize any other celestial body of its/our system [greater mass/density=greater gravitational force]. "Fitness" is a mephitic law of the jungle where the winner is always the strongest in a predatory sense and not on the axiological basis of positive values. When will this elementary cultural update? How much longer will one insists on judging pacifist matriarchy and the critique of xenophobia as more important?
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Production Company
Arcadia Motion Pictures,
Caballo Films,
Cronos Entertainment,
Le Pacte,
Latido Films,
Radio Televisión Española (RTVE),
Movistar+,
Canal+,
Ciné+,
Gobierno de España,
Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA),
Eurimages,
Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals (ICEC),
Comunidad de Madrid,
La Banque Postale Image 15,
Cofimage 33,
SofiTVciné 9,
Crea SGR
Release Date Jul 28, 2023
Duration 2 h 17 m
Awards
Goya Awards
• 9 Wins & 17 Nominations
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
• 9 Wins & 12 Nominations
Feroz Awards, ES
• 3 Wins & 10 Nominations
