La Bête Humaine 1938 123movies

Watch: La Bête humaine 1938 123movies, Full Movie Online – Jacques Lantier is a train engineer who is prone to violent seizures, a condition he attributes to his forefathers’ habit of excessive drinking. Roubaud is a train conductor on the same railroad that Lantier works on, married to the much younger Séverine. When Roubaud catches wind of his wife’s affair with her godfather, the wealthy M. Grandmorin, he kills him during a train journey in a fit of jealousy. He makes sure that Séverine is also present, making her an accomplice to murder. Lantier, despite having witnessed them quite clearly in the train corridor, hides the fact during the investigation as he is attracted to Séverine. They both begin an affair, all the while Roubaud becomes increasingly withdrawn and starts to gamble. Séverine urges Lantier to kill her husband so that they would be free but she is unaware of Lantier’s unfortunate condition..
Plot: On board a train bound for the port city of Le Havre, France, railroad stationmaster Roubard murders Grandmorin, who seduced his beautiful young wife, Severine. Engineer Jacques Lantier, stuck in Le Havre while the train is being repaired, also begins a passionate affair with Severine, who tries to entice the handsome stranger to murder her controlling husband. However, Lantier has a secret urge of his own that changes everything.
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A breathtaking Gabin
In all his splendid career, Jean Gabin can seldom have acted better than in ‘La bete humaine’ (= French for ‘the human beast’). I do not exaggerate when I label his performance as breathtaking.

Apart from this, ‘La bete humaine’ is an excellently made film. Competent acting, to start with — for instance by female lead Simone Simon, a forgotten name. This film’s setting in a French railroad-environment adds the right amount of drama, and provides a solid foundation for its plot. According to the technical standards of 1938, its shooting is first-class.

‘La bete humaine’ is a novel from the Rougon-Maquart-series by the great French author Emile Zola. Back in the second half of the 19th century, Zola wrote ‘naturalism’: an ultra-realistic style with a bottom-line of pessimism. Coincidence or not, this style fits well with the year 1938, when Adolf Hitler’s dark shade was already looming over Europe.

Porky and Bess
The point that you really could do with reading at least some of Zola’s mammoth saga is well taken – I’ve only read Germinal so I’m afraid that lets me out. The many puzzling bits in the plot would probably not be: why such fleeting references to ancestral drunkeness and epilepsy, what happened to Cabuche, were Jacques and Bess in a serious sexual relationship?

Basically outraged and cuckolded middle-aged husband murders beautiful young wife’s childhood ancient sugar daddy, she (Simon) drifts into stocky Gabin’s and/or a lithe young man’s arms, sex and violence result as surely as the earthy pre-War French trains ran on time. Some marvellously atmospheric nitrate b&w photography even when under the arc-lights, some scintillating and also some surprisingly clumsy framings from Renoir, some tremendous acting from the leads and trains, some brief but jarring full orchestral incidental music, and what are we left with all these decades later? A clever, well-made, entertaining and then-popular now relatively ignored (IMDB eg Bete Humaine 17 Amelie 1033) film applauded to the rafters as Art because it’s Renoir. There could be no other outcome for this film – it was Fated to be Art after all!

It’s very good and been one of my favourites for decades now, not as essential mind furniture but more as an enjoyably engrossing proto-noir romp with subtitles.

Other Information:

Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 40 min (100 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Crime, Drama
Director Jean Renoir
Writer Émile Zola, Jean Renoir, Denise Leblond
Actors Jean Gabin, Julien Carette, Simone Simon
Country France
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (RCA Sound System)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,420 m (re-release) (UK), 2,752 m (France)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm