The Beast

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Courtney K started out boring & then eventually turned into a badly acted low budget porno. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 08/31/24 Full Review Audience Member The year is 2021 and the world is being taken by a neo-conservative movement. Moralists mushroom everywhere and they go around pointing their fingers in condemnation of the sexuality of others. On the other extreme, the internet has destroyed pornography as art, reducing it to short clips, a sea of debris aimed at triggering immediate gratification in the mind of its viewers akin to alcohol shots. In this context, it was refreshing to see an old-style erotic movie. This is a tale of a cursed family, a ruined house of french nobles carrying a dark secret, expecting to save their line through an arranged marriage with an English family. The plot is very well written and it grabs the viewer's attention until the end. The erotic sequences are exquisitely made, they are art in its purest form - in particular the dream sequence of the garden accompanied with the sound of Scarlatti in the background; they trigger an emotional response but they are not in any way obscene. It is like watching a renaissance or impressionist painting of nude women. In my view, the combination between the set of a french chateau and the sound of Scarlatti's harpsichord in the background is simply perfect. It also provokes the viewer by subtlety exposing him/ to the hypocrisy of those with high morals. In short, if you want to return to the world of old cinema and watch erotism as an art form (which is quite different from pornography), this is a very good choice. It has all the ingredients. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Packed with humor, style, and enough transgressive imagery to choke a horse, Walerian Borowczyk's carnal faery tale successfully exploits the pleasures of lowbrow European art. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review william k Controversial, semi-pornographic phantasmagoria both fascinates and appalls with its baroque and intoxicating mixture of fairy tale and obscene daydream. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member There's an identifiable line between using extreme content for social commentary and using extreme for the sake of having it there. The Beast crosses that line many times over. Any sort of social commentary or point that the movie may have is buried so far beneath the incessant sequences of grotesque, gross, and repulsive imagery that serves no other purpose than to shock the audience. A waste of a movie and an even bigger waste of time. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member 1975. Banni pendant 30 ans pour cause de scènes de bestialité! Disponible sur netflix! Si on a l'esprit ouvert, ce film peut facilement devenir un excellent divertissement... campy à souhait! Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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