The Beautiful Beast
2006 · Movie · 110 min. · Canada
La Belle Bête is a powerful study of the conflict between beauty and ugliness, hate and love. The story revolves around three main characters. At the center, Patrice, a beautiful but mindless youth stands gazing at his image in the water. Around him move his ugly sister Isabelle-Marie, and his frivolous mother Louise, the first lost in love and hate for her brother's beauty, the second seeing it as an adornment for herself. Into this small, obsessed universe come a blind boy and an elegant fop from the outside world. At once, the pattern breaks and events move forward into a terrifying denouement.
Direction Karim Hussain
Cast Carole Laure · Caroline Dhavernas · Marc-André Grondin · David La Haye · Sébastien Huberdeau
Soundtrack David Kristian
Screenplay Marie-Claire Blais · Karim Hussain
Cinematography Karim Hussain
Original title La belle bête (The Beautiful Beast)
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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