Fiftysomething French couple Antoine and his wife Olga move to Galicia looking for a fresh start. Instead, they find only hostility and hardship in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts,” a deeply uncomf…
,” a deeply uncomfortable portrait of everyday evil that’s all the more terrifying for being true — not the two main characters, who are fictional, but the conflict that comes to define their new life in that wild corner of northwest Spain.
The movie opens with slow-motion footage of a local tradition, called “A rapa das bestas,” in which rugged men grapple with wild horses, wrestling them long enough to trim their manes before turning the animals loose again. It’s an evocative ritual, representing the brute struggle between species — a metaphor that informs all that follows.
In bed at night, Olga gazes over her husband’s shoulder and sees two men lurking outside their window. Tending their small but sturdy patch of tomatoes, they find signs of lead poisoning and trace the cause to a pair of car batteries thrown into their well. Only one person could have been responsible for sabotaging their entire crop.
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