Elegant Beast
- sombre
- brisk
Sombre, kinetic, measured satire / comedy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover there are other, equally conniving players involved.
Our read · Elegant Beast (1962) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive satire · comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Elegant Beast
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a sharp, cynical Japanese satire of a greedy scheming family.”
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The reading.
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