Daily Movie Rec 5/8/2023
La Bête humaine (1938)
"It's like this haze fills my head and twists everything out of shape. I start feeling like a mad dog."
Directed by: Jean Renoir
Cinematography by: Curt Courant
Country: France
Plot:
In this loose adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1890 novel, a tortured train engineer gets swept up in a murder plot to murder a murderer who plotted a murder.
Reasons to watch:
It’s one of Renoir’s more captivating films on a formal level, and he potently blends dreamy poetic realism with fatalistic proto-noir to capture human dichotomy and the repressed shadow selfs within us all.
The Criterion Channel
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