'The Beast in the Jungle': ill-fated adaptation of Henry James' story to Paris clubs. The literature of the New York writer, brilliant and vibrant, enveloping, with a prodigious command of language and the elliptical, finds no correspondence in the director's cinematography.

The introduction of an omniscient narrator, played by Béatrice Dalle, does not quite work either. Housed in a limbo of electronic music, dances and lust that hovers around them, while they only talk and reflect about that something extraordinary to come.