2023 - 68th Edition
Alchemies

THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE

Patric Chiha
France
 - 2023
Estreno nacional

Loosely adapted from the novel of the same title by Henry James, it tells the dizzying story of a man and a woman who, for twenty-five years, frequent a nightclub in anticipation of a mysterious event. From 1979 to 2004, from disco music to techno music, the films tells both a love story and the story of an obsession.

Patric Chiha

An Austrian filmmaker of Hungarian and Lebanese origin, born in Vienna (Austria) in 1975. He moved to Paris at the age of 18 to study fashion design. He then studied film editing at INSAS Film School in Brussels. After shooting short films such as ‘Casa Ugalde’ (2004), ‘Home’ (2006) and ‘Where is the Head of the Prison?’ (2007), and the documentary ‘Les Messieurs’ (2005), in 2009 he directed his first feature film, ‘Domaine’, starring Béatrice Dalle, which premiered at the Mostra di Venezia. It was followed by ‘Boys Like Us’ (2014), and the documentaries ‘Brothers of the Night’ (2016) and ‘If It Were Love’ (2019), which both premiered at the Berlinale. ‘The Beast in the Jungle’ (2023) is his fifth feature film and it was premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival.

DIRECTOR
Patric Chiha
SCREENPLAY
Patric Chiha, Axelle Ropert, Jihane Chouaib
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Céline Bozon
EDITOR
Karina Ressler, Julien Lacheray
SOUND
Atanas Tcholakov, Mikaël Barre
MUSIC
Yelli Yelli, Florent Charissoux, Dino Spiluttini
PRODUCTION
Charlotte Vincent, Katia Khazak, Cassandre Warnauts, Jean-Yves Roubin, Ebba Sinzinger, Vincent Lucassen
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Aurora Films, Frakas Productions, WILDart Film, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), Proximus, VOO, BE TV
CAST
Anaïs Demoustier, Tom Mercier, Béatrice Dalle, Martin Vischer, Sophie Demeyer, Pedro Cabanas, Mara Taquin, Bachir Tlili
RUNNING TIME
103 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2023
VERSION
O.V. in French with English and Spanish subtitles
COUNTRY
France
CONTACT
Les Films du Losange
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