Synopsis
The Beasts (As bestas, 2022) is a Spanish-French thriller from Rodrigo Sorogoyen that you can watch online on iFILM. A French couple, Antoine and Olga, have settled in a remote Galician village, fixing up abandoned houses and farming a small plot. The quiet does not last.
A company arrives pitching wind turbines, and the neighbors see a payday and a ticket out. Antoine votes no, and that single refusal is enough to set a slow feud with two local brothers, Xan and Lorenzo, smoldering. Denis Ménochet and Marina Foïs play the outsiders; Luis Zahera is the neighbor whose quiet menace anchors the whole picture. The pressure builds without rush, until it reaches a point there is no walking back from.
The film runs on dread for long stretches and swept nine Goya Awards, including Best Film and Best Director. Sorogoyen shoots the countryside like a battlefield, where land, pride and who gets to decide matter more than any life. If you want a smart, mean European thriller instead of a spectacle, this is a direct hit. Stream The Beasts (2022) online on iFILM.
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