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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

In Theaters Now
  • 2023
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 2 h 17 m
  • 2023
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 2 h 17 m
The Beasts
Metascore Universal acclaim Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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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

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Universal acclaim Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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100
Aug 11, 2023
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.
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95
Jul 31, 2023
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.
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67% Positive
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90
Jul 31, 2023
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.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
85
Jul 28, 2023
A small-scale tragedy about arrogant intolerance and self-centeredness that’s at once highly specific and, more depressing still, universal.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 30, 2023
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.
By Phil de Semlyen FULL REVIEW
75
Jul 24, 2023
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.
By William Repass FULL REVIEW
67
Jul 28, 2023
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.
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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
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Website https://greenwichentertainment.com/film/the-beasts/
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Awards

Goya Awards
• 9 Wins & 17 Nominations
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
• 9 Wins & 12 Nominations
Feroz Awards, ES
• 3 Wins & 10 Nominations

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