Contact with a beast must not be kept secret at confession
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Sirpa Lane in
The Beast (La bête) (1975) - Walerian Borowczyk [Amazon.com] [UK]
Twenty three years ago, the French film The Beast premiered in France.
La Bête (Eng: The Beast) is a 1975 film written and directed by Walerian Borowczyk, starring Sirpa Lane, based on Lokis, a story by Prosper Mérimée. The film (originally conceived in 1972 as a film on its own, but then in 1974 as the fifth story in Contes immoraux) belonged to his later work, which was seen by many as a decline in the director’s career after Dzieje grzechu, except in France, where it was hailed by nobrow critics such as Ado Kyrou.
Here is some shaky Youtube footage:
The music consists of harpsichord pieces by Domenico Scarlatti.
Music in Borowczyk films usually draws from the high art canon of classical music, for example, he uses Mendelssohn in The Story of Sin, Handel in Goto, Island of Love and Domenico Scarlatti [...]
