THE BEASTS

Spain 2022 - DCP - 137 minutes, in Spanish and French with English subtitles

Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen

Screenplay: Isabel Peña, Rodrigo Sorogoyen

Producers: Ignasi Estapé, Anne-Laure Labadie, Jean Labadie, Nacho Lavilla, Thomas Pibarot, Rodrigo Sorogoyen

Cast: Marina Foïs, Denis Ménochet, Luis Zahera, Diego Anido, Marie Colomb

Print Courtesy: Greenwich Entertainment

Winner of nine Goya awards including Best Film of the Year as well as Best Director, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Music, The Beasts truly deserved them all. It’s an extraordinary film that is at once a psychological thriller, a deeply moving love story, and a multilayered commentary on class divide, xenophobia, and the gulf between city and country. Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s memorably intense film is set in a Galician (the “wild west” of Spain) farming village. It’s a region that’s as sweepingly idyllic as it is economically depressed. A bourgeois French couple, committed to organic farming, settles uneasily among the poor Spanish farmers who’ve struggled for generations to earn a living from this land. They clash over whether to sell their land to foreign interests who’ve offered fast money to develop wind power there.

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