The Beautiful Beast

The Beautiful Beast
Poster
FrenchLa Belle bête
Directed byKarim Hussain
Written byMarie-Claire Blais
Julien Fonfrède
Karim Hussain
Based onMad Shadows (La Belle bête) by Marie-Claire Blais
Produced byAnne Cusson
Julien Fonfrède
Karim Hussain
StarringCarole Laure
Caroline Dhavernas
Marc-André Grondin
CinematographyKarim Hussain
Edited byÉric Lavoie
Music byDavid Kristian
Production
companies
Equinox Productions
Screen Machine
Distributed byEquinoxe Films
Release date
  • October 11, 2006 (2006-10-11) (Sitges)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

The Beautiful Beast (French: La Belle bête) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Karim Hussain and released in 2006.[1] An adaptation of Marie-Claire Blais's 1959 novel Mad Shadows (La Belle bête), the film centres on a dysfunctional family headed by single mother Louise (Carole Laure), who has an abusive relationship with her children Patrice (Marc-André Grondin) and Isabelle-Marie (Caroline Dhavernas).[2]

The cast also includes David La Haye, Sébastien Huberdeau, Ludivine Reding, Normand Lévesque, Nicolas Girard Deltruc and Richard Tassé.

The film premiered on October 11, 2006 at the Sitges Film Festival, before going into general release in Quebec on November 3.[3]

Patrick Watson and Dhavernas received a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Song at the 27th Genie Awards in 2007, for the song "Trace-moi".[4]

  1. ^ Isabel Massé, "La belle bête : mal apprivoisée". La Presse, November 4, 2006.
  2. ^ Brendan Kelly, "La Belle bete creates the twisted family, but not the tension". Montreal Gazette, November 3, 2006.
  3. ^ "AFM: Karim Hussain's THE BEAUTIFUL BEAST (LA BELLE BÊTE)". Screen Anarchy, September 30, 2006.
  4. ^ "The Rocket, Bon Cop lead Canada's Genie nominations". Screen Daily, January 9, 2007.