The Beast
Obscure Pleasures: The Films of Walerian Borowczyk
April 2 - 9, 2015
New digital restoration
Introduction by film critic Nick Pinkerton at 9:15pm screening on April 8
Bestial dreams interrupt the venal plans of a French aristocrat in this erotic black farce hell-bent on trampling every pretense of good taste.
New digital restoration
Introduction by film critic Nick Pinkerton at 9:15pm screening on April 8
Bestial dreams interrupt the venal plans of a French aristocrat attempting to save a crumbling mansion by marrying off his deformed son to a horny American heiress. Drawing on the legends surrounding the beast of Gévaudan, Prosper Mérimée’s novella Lokis and Freud’s Wolf Man, The Beast is an erotic black farce hell-bent on trampling every pretense of good taste. In The Beast, the only decorum and restraint is to be found in Scarlatti’s harpsichord music. Note: contains explicit sexual content.
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