SUN MAR 24, 2024 7:30 PM LA BÊTE HUMAINE / HUMAN DESIRE $10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission) Egyptian Theatre | ‘NOIR CITY: Hollywood 2024’ Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE EVENT: 7:30pm | Introduction 7:40pm | LA BÊTE HUMAINE 9:20pm | Intermission 9:30pm | HUMAN DESIRE Start times are approximate. ABOUT THE FILMS: LA BÊTE HUMAINE, Dir. Jean Renoir, 100 Min, Janus Films, France Originally released December 23, 1938 In French with English subtitles. In the 1930s, Jean Gabin brought a gallery of doomed men to life with a blend of poetic fatalism and blunt proletarian defiance, becoming the first global icon of the noir spirit. He chose Jean Renoir to direct this adaptation of Emile Zola’s novel about a working-class man whose “hereditary flaw” causes psychotic episodes. When he falls for the wife of a railroad official, herself damaged by abuse and exploitation, they are on track for inevitable tragedy. Renoir tells a bleak story with unsentimental empathy. FORMAT: DCP HUMAN DESIRE, Dir. Fritz Lang, 91 Min, Sony Repertory, USA Originally released and November 3, 1954 Following the popular success of 1953’s THE BIG HEAT, Columbia mogul Harry Cohn reteamed Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame with director Fritz Lang for this Americanized adaptation of LA BÊTE HUMAINE, smuggling the sordid tale of adultery and murder past Production Code Administration censor Joseph Breen. Gloria Grahame gives a bruised and beleaguered performance as the abused woman who wonders if murdering her loutish husband (bellicose Broderick Crawford) is the only exit strategy that might free her from domestic hell FORMAT: DCP