LA BÊTE DANS LA JUNGLE / THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE

Freely adapted from the novella by Henry James, The Beast In The Jungle tells the vertiginous story of a man and woman who, for twenty-five years, frequent a huge nightclub in anticipation of a mysterious event. From 1979 to 2004, from disco to techno, it is a love story and the tale of an obsession. When “it“ finally comes to pass, it takes on a more tragic form than ever expected.

PATRIK ČIHA / PATRIC CHIHA

Patric Chiha is an Austrian filmmaker of Hungarian and Lebanese origin, born in Vienna 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. His short films and documentaries have been selected in a variety of film festivals. In 2009 he directed his first feature film, Domaine, which premiered at the Mostra di Venezia. 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.

 

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Freely adaptation of Henry James, with immense, strange and thrilling ambition.

Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa