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La Bête Humaine

  • Film
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Time Out says

Stunning images of trains and railway lines as a metaphor for the blind, immutable forces that drive human passions to destruction. Superb performances from Gabin, Simon and Ledoux as the classic tragic love triangle. The deterministic principles of Zola's novel, replaced by destiny in Lang's remake Human Desire, are slightly muffled here. But given the overwhelming tenderness and brutality of Renoir's vision, it hardly matters that the hero's compulsion to kill, the result of hereditary alcoholism, is left half-explained.
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Release Details

  • Duration:104 mins

Cast and crew

  • Cast:
    • Blanchette Brunoy
    • Fernand Ledoux
    • Simone Simon
    • Julien Carette
    • Jean Gabin
    • Jean Renoir
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