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Que la bête meure (18)
HOME Manchester2 Tony Wilson Place
Wed 23 Sept · 18:00
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(The Beast Must Die) Dir Claude Chabrol/FR IT 1969/113 mins/French wEng ST Michel Duchaussoy, Jean Yanne, Caroline Cellier A father whose son has been killed by a hit-and-run driver sets out to identify and murder the culprit, only to find the situation considerably more complicated than revenge usually allows. Cited by Bong Joon Ho as a key influence on his Oscar-winning Parasite, Que la bête meure is a thriller that keeps pulling the moral rug from beneath audiences’ feet, leaving them, like its protagonist, in a place of deep discomfort.
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