The Spanish thriller master Rodrigo Sorogoyen returns with
As Bestas
, his sixth feature, presented out of competition at the last Cannes Film Festival.
This dark film with false western airs depicts the daily life of Antoine and Olga (Denis Ménochet and Marina Foïs), a couple of neo-rurals freshly landed in the mountains of Galicia to practice organic farming there.
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These French people also want to revitalize the declining Spanish village by voluntarily restoring the abandoned houses there.
By opposing a wind farm project, they come up against the hostility of their neighbors Xan and Anta (Luis Zahena and Diego Anido), two brothers, who were counting on this establishment to sell their farm and leave their life of misery. .
The neighborhood dispute turns to harassment and soon to hatred, and the film gradually turns into a moving thriller.
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Far from being Manichaean,
As Bestas
shows through a controlled staging, of an incredible subtlety, the tensions, the anxieties and the paranoia which go hand in hand with the disintegration of the social game.
The men are portrayed in their brutality, their very animality, as the title of the film suggests.
Released this Wednesday, July 20.
