La Bête Humaine (1938)
- Original title
- La Bête humaine
- Directed by
- Jean Renoir
- Genre
- drama film, crime film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 244 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This is a French crime drama from 1938. It follows the lives of people connected to a train, including a railway worker and a woman caught in a violent relationship. The story explores their desires and the violent impulses that drive them.
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What happens
La Bête Humaine (English: The Human Beast and Judas Was a Woman) is a 1938 French crime drama film directed by Jean Renoir, with cinematography by Curt Courant. The picture features Jean Gabin and Simone Simon, and is loosely based on the 1890 novel La Bête humaine by Émile Zola. La Bête Humaine is partially set "on a train that may be thought of as one of the main characters in the film." Although generally listed as a romantic drama, it is sometimes thought to foreshadow the film noir genre. Fritz Lang directed an adaptation of the same source material as Human Desire 16 years later in the U.S. for Columbia Pictures. The latter film falls more properly within the film noir genre. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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