Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Argos Films
- Foreign production company : Schamoni Film
Full credits (3)
- Executive Producers : Peter Schamoni, Anatole Dauman
- Screenwriter : Walerian Borowczyk
- Director of Photography : Marcel Grignon
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Coproducer countries : France, Germany
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1975
- Runtime : 18 min
- Color type : Color
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About
Borowczyk initially made the short film The True Story of the Beast of Gévaudan (La véritable histoire de la bête du Gévaudan) for the anthology Immoral Tales (Contes immoraux, 1974), but it was subsequently removed and turned into the 18th-century dream sequence in The Beast. It’s now bookended by a Lokis-inspired present-day framing story in which young Lucy Broadhurst (Lisbeth Hummel) travels to France for an arranged marriage, but discovers that her would-be husband Mathurin (Pierre Benedetti) is less interested in her than he is in his horses - shown graphically copulating in the film’s confrontational opening sequence.
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Full film to discover (with English-subs)
In the maternity ward, Céline awaits the arrival of her first child. It is Jeanne, her partner, who will bring her into the world. At night, in the entrance hall of the hospital, she meets men who are waiting, like herself.
🏆 This short film won the César Award 2024 for Best Short Film (Fiction)