Man, Woman and Beast
A small town in Italy is about to celebrate their patron saint. The city is full of people with different problems. A Communist in existentialist crisis that also must take care of his mentally ill wife. A woman who is tired of her husband's inability to show emotions and therefore more and more often slips into the world of dreams. A perverse butcher engaged in sex with the meat he sells when he's not peeping on young girls. A girl who became pregnant after having sex with her father. In this town a mysterious stranger show up and who turns on several of the inhabitants lives.
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| Original Title | L'uomo, la donna e la bestia - Spell (Dolce mattatoio) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Country | Italy |
| Genre | Drama |
| Director | Alberto Cavallone |
| Runtime | 100 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 5.2/10 (14 votes) |
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The film constructs a grim tapestry of human frailty and despair, relying on the stark contrast between the town's pious surface and its moral decay. It explores the dark recesses of the soul where religion and tradition fail against primal urges and existential dread.
What lingers after viewing is a profoundly unsettling yet captivating portrait of a community where the line between man and beast blurs, and salvation takes on a disturbingly ambiguous form. A challenging, thought-provoking descent into the abyss. — MovieFinder Editorial
Director: Alberto Cavallone
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Watch alone late at night, prepared for a disquieting, philosophical meditation on human nature.
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