
La Bête Humaine
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Release Date
12/23/1938Runtime
98 minsOverview
Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Séverine, his wife.
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A fatalistic romance where passion and darkness intertwine aboard trains and in shadowed rooms. Renoir crafts a portrait of people trapped by their own desires and secrets, moving toward an inevitable reckoning.
Mood
MelancholicTenseBittersweet
Themes
ObsessionLoveFamilyMortality
Tone
Earnest
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
NaturalisticPainterly
Structure
Linear
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