Mystery and melancholy. Surprised by the low attention and low ratings, because "The Beasts" is a chic atmospheric film! The main and only heroine is Lily-Rose Depp, the daughter of Depp and Paradis, surprisingly similar to both parents. Maybe not a beauty and (yet) not a great actress, but she coped with the role as it should according to the script, portraying, as her heroine said herself, a “restrained” person. In doing so, she played a really strange girl who doesn’t flinch at telling her something important (like that she’s suspected of murder), but who smiles when she hears strange things (like that she’ll be killed if they make a mistake in training a more experienced player, I won’t say what, or that the husband of a policewoman disappeared in the same place last year). That’s how strange people behave! By the way, as it turned out, a policewoman is also a thing with a double bottom.
Back to the atmosphere. Young guys and girls who are always thinking about what. Their parents, it turns out, sometimes think about it. Dating in cars and just on the clearings in the light of the moon and stars, alcohol and marijuana, swimming in the pool. Suddenly, all this is overshadowed by the appearance of a panther, killed by animals and missing people. On the one hand, it is scary, on the other hand - well, do not spoil the rest, because the tents are bought, the rent of houses is paid, and alcohol and other substances reduce the feeling of fear. And now the main character decides to participate in the search for a panther, and at the same time the missing failed boyfriend. And it will be very stylish, and sometimes even witty. Yes, the film is about mentally ill people, but sometimes their actions are really funny to watch, why hypocrisy?
By the way, the denouement of the film is very unusual, does not slide into the cliché about a good girl and a bad evil uncle, which this girl is passionate about. And everything is very French: types, faces, dialogues, attention to small things, attention to people’s thoughts and their relationships with other people, just like Balzac’s “Human Comedy”, fit in an hour with a little.
10 out of 10