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La Bête Humaine
Directed by
Jean Renoir
Not Rated
1938
1h 38m
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7.5
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In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.
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Cast of La Bête Humaine
Jean Gabin
Lantier
Simone Simon
Séverine
Fernand Ledoux
Roubaud
Julien Carette
Pecqueux
Blanchette Brunoy
Flore
Gérard Landry
Dauvergne
Jenny Hélia
Philomène
Colette Régis
Victoire
Claire Gérard
Voyager
Charlotte Clasis
Aunt Phasie
Jacques Berlioz
Grandmorin
Tony Corteggiani
Dabadie
André Tavernier
Examining Magistrate Denizet
Jacques Roussel
Commissaire Cauche
Marcel Pérès
Lamplighter
Jean Renoir
Cabuche
La Bête Humaine Ratings & Reviews
The New Republic
Otis Ferguson
Gabin is one of the really massive personalities of films: he makes his silences count and his mere presence felt, he has the kind of mind and hand you would count on in tight places, he has both solidity and dash.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
The film has marvellous atmosphere and a fine cast, but the material, which involves brutal, uncontrollable passion seen in a social framework, turns oppressive, and at times Gabin is a lump.
TV Guide
Features one of Jean Gabin's greatest performances -- one with even more force than the locomotive he powers.
DVDJournal.com
Mark Bourne
La bête humaine may show Renoir at his darkest, but as always Renoir in his observantly caustic mode can't bring himself to not splash highlighting colors onto his preeminently human canvas.
New York Times
Frank S. Nugent
It is simply a story; a macabre, grim and oddly-fascinating story.
Groucho Reviews
Peter Canavese
[Renoir's] expertise behind the camera--and his driving curiosity for human constructs and human nature...elevate La bete humaine to an unforgettable filmic experience.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
... it's the hot visuals that make the film so explosive.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Jean Renoir's generous sensibility seems at odds with the sterile determinism of the Zola novel on which this 1938 film was based.
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