La Bête Humaine Comments

  • Abigale 2022-09-18 07:16:51

    Typical French...

  • Electa 2022-09-16 21:30:15

    Poetic tragedy. The translation of the title obviously did not capture the soul of the movie, and even distorted the original meaning of the movie. "Beasts" are by no means the real face under disguise, but are gradually transformed by honest people. What the movie discusses is to promote this transformation. The culprit - desire. Renoir's consistent restrained shots not only internalize the spread of lust, but also hide the moral corruption spawned by lust in a romantic and poetic atmosphere,...

  • Sarah 2022-09-08 17:36:56

    "Poetic noir clues" is a good saying that the sins of ancestors' indulgence, people are alienated in self-denial, and doomed to not be able to achieve the perfection of love. As the iconic product of the industrial revolution, the noisy machinery "The noisy sound is too scary. "Marrying a train as a wife is self-depression, and the destruction after struggling is to jump off the train "Good...

  • Kaci 2022-09-02 06:41:32

    The front and side shots of the speeding train scene are indeed quite dangerous and oppressive. Quite noir, it is not so much the male protagonist's own genetic desire, but the various temptations and advancements brought about by the events of the people he meets are even more frightening. In contrast, the male protagonist's colleagues simply glow with rational...

  • Donna 2022-08-21 22:56:10

    Someone can't stand it...

  • Andrew 2022-08-21 20:00:21

    I like Renoir's a bit ruthless side, and those films that are deeply familiar with the "rules of the game" don't feel...

  • Dusty 2022-08-21 18:51:51

    I don’t feel much about Renoir’s 1930s...

  • Andrew 2022-08-21 13:51:35

    It truly described the lives of French railway employees and exposed the struggle between power and desire in the upper class. Love changes, murders, and love stories were indeed very classics at that...

  • Ken 2022-08-21 13:20:56

    It's just a little...

Extended Reading

La Bête Humaine quotes

  • Séverine Roubaud: Yesterday he almost got crushed between two train cars. I was so close to being free. One morning you're fine and by the evening you're dead.

  • Séverine Roubaud: There he is.

    Jacques Lantier: Where? I don't see him.

    Séverine Roubaud: He's coming around the shed. He's coming towards us. I see his shadow on the wall.

La Bête Humaine

Director: Jean Renoir

Language: French Release date: February 19, 1940