La Bête Humaine (1938) (La bête humaine)

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" Notes: I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick but Jean Renoir is regarded as one of the best French directors that ever lived so I was quite eager to check it out. This time, he was working with Jean Gabin who was at the time easily the most illustrious French actor. Indeed, together, they made 'La Grande Illusion' which became one of the greatest classics in motion picture history and, a year later, they made this flick. This time, it was an adaptation of a very famous book written by"

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" Notes: I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick but Jean Renoir is regarded as one of the best French directors that ever lived so I was quite eager to check it out. This time, he was working with Jean Gabin who was at the time easily the most illustrious French actor. Indeed, together, they made 'La Grande Illusion' which became one of the greatest classics in motion picture history and, a year later, they made this flick. This time, it was an adaptation of a very famous book written by"

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"23.4 Ranska/Renoir Tässä elokuvassa on yllättävän paljon perverssejä ja perversioita. "

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"Jean Renoir is the conductor of the propulsive locomotive of a film that is 1938’s La Bête Humaine, whose oft-repeated images of moving train tracks suggest film rolling through a projector. Of a piece with his later triumphs of poetic realism, this vibrant proto-noir also displays many of the technical and narrative tenets of noir that would come to define the genre. La Bête Humaine, though, noticeably lacks the typical noir film’s distinctly cynical outlook on human nature, though its st"