The Beasts (2022 film)

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Poster by James Verdesoto[1]
Directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen
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  • Thomas Pibarot
  • Anne-Laure Labadie
  • Jean Labadie
  • Rodrigo Sorogoyen
  • Nacho Lavilla
  • Eduardo Villanueva
  • Sandra Tapia Diaz
  • Ignasi Estapé
  • Ibon Cormenzana
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Music by Olivier Arson
Cinematography Alex de Pablo
Edited by Alberto del Campo
Production
company
  • Arcadia Motion Pictures
  • Caballo Films
  • Cronos Entertainment
  • Le Pacte
Distributed by
  • Le Pacte (France)
  • A Contracorriente Films (Spain)
Release dates
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  • 26 May 2022 (2022-05-26) (Cannes)
  • 20 July 2022 (2022-07-20) (France)
  • 11 November 2022 (2022-11-11) (Spain)
Running time
 137 minutes
Country <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Spain
  • France
Language <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • French
  • Spanish
  • Galician

The Beasts (Galician: As bestas) is a 2022 thriller film directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, who co-wrote the screenplay with Isabel Peña. It stars Denis Ménochet, Marina Foïs, Luis Zahera, and Diego Anido. A Spanish-French co-production, it was shot in Galician, French and Spanish.

Inspired by real events involving a Dutch couple in Santoalla,[2] the plot follows a French couple (Ménochet and Foïs) settled in the Galician countryside, exploring issues of xenophobia and escalating hostility between neighbors buoyed by a conflict vis-à-vis a wind farm project, arriving to a point of no return.

The film made its world premiere at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on 26 May 2022, with a festival run that also included screenings in San Sebastián, Tokyo and Chicago. It was released theatrically in France on 20 July 2022 and in Spain on 11 November 2022.

The Beasts earned 17 nominations to the 37th Goya Awards, including Best Film, Director, Original Screenplay, Leading Actor and Leading Actress.

Plot

The plot is loosely inspired by real events that took place in Santoalla, a semi-abandoned hamlet of Petín, from 2010 to 2014.[3] Set in the Galician countryside, it follows a French couple (Antoine and Olga Denis) settled in a small village seeking to connect with nature, growing and selling their own eco-friendly crops and rehabilitating abandoned properties so they can be reinhabited. However their presence arouses hostility and downright violence from a couple of neighbors,[4][5] the brothers Xan (an inflexible man used to interacting under a might makes right worldview) and Loren (with reduced mental capacity in the wake of an accident he suffered when he was young),[6] pitted against the French at the opposing side of a dispute pertaining the sale of land to a wind energy company, as Antoine and Olga are opposed to the deal and block it, whilst Xan wants the money in order to leave the countryside and have a chance for a better life for him and his family.

Cast

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Production

The film was produced by Arcadia Motion Pictures, Caballo Films, Cronos Entertainment and Le Pacte (fr), with the participation of RTVE, Movistar+, Canal+ and Cine+, support from Eurimages, and funding from ICAA.[11] The screenplay was penned by Sorogoyen's long-time collaborator Isabel Peña and Sorogoyen himself.[5] The production crew also features other Sorogoyen's recurring collaborators (such as Olivier Arson as composer, Alex de Pablo as director of cinematography and Alberto del Campo as film editor).[11]

Sorogoyen reported that he would shoot the film "as a western".[4] Filming began on 16 September 2021 and wrapped on 13 December 2021.[11][12] Shooting locations included El Bierzo and inland Galicia.[13]

Release

The Beasts debuted at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on 26 May 2022,[14] screened out of competition in the Cannes Première section.[15][16] Distributed by Le Pacte,[17] the film opened in French theatres on 20 July 2022.[18][19] It also screened at the 70th San Sebastián International Film Festival in September 2022, as part of the 'Pearls' film slate.[20][21] It was also selected in the 35th Tokyo International Film Festival's main slate (for its Asian premiere).[22] Distributed by A Contracorriente, it was theatrically released in Spain on 11 November 2022.[23][24] By the end of the year, it had grossed €3.6 million at the Spanish box office, the 6th highest-grossing Spanish film overall.[25]

Latido Films licensed US rights on the film to Greenwich Entertainment.[26]

Reception

Critical reception

According to the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, The Beasts has a 100% approval rating based on 13 reviews from critics, with an average rating of 8.4/10.[27]

Wendy Ide of ScreenDaily deemed the film to be "a terrific psychological thriller and a brooding, muscular piece of filmmaking which makes the most of both the Galician backdrop and the imposing physicality of Menochet and, as his nemesis Xan, the remarkable Luis Zahera.[9]

Manu Yáñez of Fotogramas rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, writing that Sorogoyen "shows his talent for generating situations charged with blatant hostility", assessing "the way Sorogoyen manages the tempo of each scene" to be the best about the film, while drawing out the "grotesque portrait of the inhabitants of rural Galicia", close to caricature, as the worst thing about it.[28]

Philipp Engel of Cinemanía rated the film 4½ stars, pointing out at two sequence shots working in a mirror-like fashion (respectively concerning Menochet, Zahera and Anido, and Foïs and Colomb) as the heart of the film, underscoring The Beasts to be "a beastly film, although not entirely rounded, due to [featuring] a complexity that moves it away from the purity of the western".[24]

Raquel Hernández Luján of HobbyConsolas rated The Beasts with 85 points ("very good"), highlighting the tension throughout its first hour as well as the performances by Ménochet, Foïs, and Zahera as the film's standouts.[29]

Eric Ortiz García of ScreenAnarchy assessed that the film "stands out for its accomplished sequences of mundane tension in crescendo and for the complex background of the conflict".[10]

Marta Medina of El Confidencial rated the film 4 out of 5 stars assessing it to have its best ally in "its formal cleanliness, in its conciseness".[6]

In August 2022, the members of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain selected The Beasts in their shortlist of three pre-selections for their submission to the 95th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film alongside Alcarràs and Lullaby.[30]

Top ten lists

The film appeared on a number of critics' top ten lists of the best European films of 2022:

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  • 3rd — Cineuropa (Aurore Engelen)[31]
  • 6th — Cineuropa (Alfonso Rivera)[31]
  • 7th — Cineuropa (Vittoria Scarpa)[31]
  • 9th — Cineuropa (Júlia Olmo)[31]

In addition, it also appeared on top ten lists of the best Spanish films of 2022:

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Accolades

Year Award Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
2022 70th San Sebastián International Film Festival City of Donostia/San Sebastian Audience Award for Best European Film The Beasts Won [40]
58th Chicago International Film Festival Gold Hugo Nominated [41]
Silver Hugo for Best Ensemble Performance Denis Ménochet, Marina Foïs, Luis Zahera, Diego Anido, and Marie Colomb Won [42]
35th Tokyo International Film Festival Grand Prix The Beasts Won [43]
Best Director Rodrigo Sorogoyen Won
Best Actor Denis Ménochet Won
28th Forqué Awards Best Film The Beasts Won [44][45]
Best Film Actor Denis Ménochet Won
2023 28th Lumières Awards Best Actor Denis Ménochet Nominated [46]
Best International Co-Production Won
10th Feroz Awards Best Drama Film Ignasi Estapé, Sandra Tapia, Ibon Cormenzana, Eduardo Villanueva Won [47][48][49]
Best Director Rodrigo Sorogoyen Nominated
Best Screenplay Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Isabel Peña Nominated
Best Actress in a Film Marina Foïs Nominated
Best Actor in a Film Denis Ménochet Nominated
Best Supporting Actor in a Film Diego Anido Nominated
Luis Zahera Won
Best Soundtrack Olivier Arson Won
Best Trailer Miguel Ángel Trudu Nominated
Best Film Poster Jordi Rins, Lucía Faraig Nominated
2nd Carmen Awards Best Non-Andalusian Film Pending [50]
78th CEC Medals Best Film Pending [51]
Best Director Rodrigo Sorogoyen Pending
Best Actor Denis Ménochet Pending
Best Actress Marina Foïs Pending
Best Supporting Actor Luis Zahera Pending
Diego Anido Pending
Best Supporting Actress Marie Colomb Pending
Luisa Merelas Pending
Best Original Screenplay Isabel Peña, Rodrigo Sorogoyen Pending
Best Cinematography Alex de Pablo Pending
Best Editing Alberto del Campo Pending
Best Music Oliver Arson Pending
37th Goya Awards Best Film Pending [52]
Best Director Rodrigo Sorogoyen Pending
Best Original Screenplay Isabel Peña, Rodrigo Sorogoyen Pending
Best Actor Denis Ménochet Pending
Best Actress Marina Foïs Pending
Best Supporting Actor Diego Anido Pending
Luis Zahera Pending
Best Supporting Actress Marie Colomb Pending
Best Cinematography Álex de Pablo Pending
Best Editing Alberto del Campo Pending
Best Original Score Olivier Arson Pending
Best Sound Aitor Berenguer, Fabiola Ordoyo, Yasmina Praderas Pending
Best Art Direction José Tirado Pending
Best Costume Design Paola Torres Pending
Best Makeup and Hairstyles Irene Pedrosa, Jesús Gil Pending
Best Special Effects Óscar Abades, Ana Rubio Pending
Best Production Supervision Carmen Sánchez de la Vega Pending
48th César Awards Best Foreign Film Pending [53]
31st Actors and Actresses Union Awards Best Film Actress in a Leading Role Marina Foïs Pending [54]
Best Film Actor in a Leading Role Denis Ménochet Pending
Best Film Actor in a Secondary Role Luis Zahera Pending
Best Film Actress in a Minor Role Marie Colomb Pending
Best New Actor Diego Anido Pending

See also

References

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External links

  • The Beasts at IMDbLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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