holy crap, what an interesting take on the Beauty and the Beast story with some Bunuelian sensibilities. Hilarious stuff!
Elisabeth Kaza, Guy Tréjan, Lisbeth Hummel
The head of a failing French family thinks that fate has smiled down on him when the daughter of a wealthy man agrees to be married to his son. The daughter and her aunt then travel out to the French ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 8, 2005
Stats: 92 reviews
Flixster Reviews (92)
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August 7, 2008
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April 27, 2008
I wanted to like this a lot more than I did, but as a whole it came across as amateurish and juvenile, a weak framework being used as an excuse to show sexually "shocking" imagery. Great, now I've seen horses mate. Oh wow, they're showing that guy's johnson. Sex and sexual ima...( read more)
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September 27, 2006
Borowczyk's notorious erotic fable. Wonderfully wicked and quite beautiful in its own perverse way.
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June 21, 2006
The Beast is an adept title for this curious piece of Eurosleaze which opens with several shots of copulating horses and close-ups of their "throbbing" genitalia. The perversity level is then ratcheted up during the film with memorable scenes including a female masturbation seque...( read more)
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September 27, 2008
ughhh don't even get me started, this movie is so fucked up and gross! but it did make me laugh a little bit.
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April 28, 2008
I was taken by surprise to see that this film turn out to be a weird one.Is like watching a twisted & exotic tale of beauty & the beast.The film is extremely bizarre & explicit.You have to be in the right mood for this film but is quite a shocking one.
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November 12, 2007
Deep within this run of the mill mystery is an incredible, strange and sexy scene. The true story of the beauty and the beast.
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