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La Bête Humaine
From: The Village Voice
Date: 20060329
Author:Atkinson, Michael
La Bête Humaine
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Between his twin Elvis years of 1937 (Grand Illusion) and 1939 (The Rules of the Game), master artiste Jean Renoir crafted this brooding, fluid adaptation of Emile Zola's doctrinaire novel, expanding the palette of pre-noir "poetic realism" to include me hardscrabble locomotion of proletariat desperation and fashioning a national icon of working-class struggle in the process. The mechanics of Zola's disastrous, homicide-poisoned love triangle-between train engineer Lantier (Jean Gabin), his co-worker Roubaud (Fernand Ledoux), and Roubaud's luscious kitten-wife ...
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