The Beasts

Name: The Beasts
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: July 28, 2023
Duration: 137 min
Rating: 85
Cast: David Menéndez, Denis Menochet, Diego Anido, Federico Pérez Rey, Javier Varela

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Greenwich Entertainment | Release Date: July 28, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: David Menéndez, Denis Menochet, Diego Anido, Federico Pérez Rey, Javier Varela, José Manuel Fernández y Blanco, Luis Zahera, Luisa Merelas, Marie Colomb, Marina Foïs

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-seatAn 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 thriller.… Expand

Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 137 min

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Chris Knight

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. Read full review

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Donald Clarke

Mar 30, 2023

A terrific, gripping drama that will cross cultural borders with ease. Every nation has such stories. Read full review

Carlos Aguilar

Aug 4, 2023

As with all great moral dilemmas, Sorogoyen makes it impossible to entirely side with either party without considering that each of them has been victimized by larger social ills. Read full review

The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Jul 28, 2023

A small-scale tragedy about arrogant intolerance and self-centeredness that’s at once highly specific and, more depressing still, universal. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Mar 30, 2023

The Beasts is a strange film in many ways, difficult to pin down tonally or generically, but it leaves a trail of unease in the mind. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Simon Abrams

Jul 28, 2023

The Beasts may not be realistic, but it is genuinely eerie. Read full review

The Film Stage Lena Wilson

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. Read full review

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ismacinefilo

Aug 17, 2023

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,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.… Expand

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SaMoFilmFam

Aug 13, 2023

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 theDespite 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.… Expand

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Mauro_Lanari

Aug 25, 2023

(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(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?… Expand

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