Rural tension turns lethal in The Beasts, Rodrigo Sorogoyen's 2022 thriller made between France and Spain.
What is The Beasts about?
A middle-aged French couple relocates to a small village, drawn by the promise of a slower life close to nature. Their arrival unsettles two local men, and what begins as friction over land and belonging escalates step by step into open hostility. Neither side backs down, and the pressure between newcomers and locals builds toward violence that neither the couple nor the village can walk back from, with every small provocation pushing the situation past the point of a quiet resolution.
About the cast
Marina Foïs and Denis Ménochet play the couple at the center of the story, with Luis Zahera and Diego Anido as the neighbors whose resentment drives the conflict. Marie Colomb, Machi Salgado, David Menéndez and Luisa Merelas fill out a cast built around a small, isolated community where every relationship carries weight, and where a single conversation can shift the balance between neighbors.
Context & significance
The Beasts is a French-Spanish co-production directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, and it works in a register familiar from rural thrillers: a landscape that looks peaceful on the surface hiding resentments that have built for years. The film keeps its focus tight on the couple and their two neighbors, using the isolation of the village to intensify a conflict that starts small and never lets up, letting silence and body language do as much work as dialogue. It belongs to the wider genre of slow-burn rural thrillers, where the setting itself, the weather, the empty roads, the closeness of every household, becomes part of the pressure bearing down on the characters, and where a disagreement over something as ordinary as land use can carry the full weight of the film.
Watching The Beasts on Ktime
The Beasts streams on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving viewers the choice of either. The page is free to read without an account; streaming the film itself requires signing in, and K-Time's Farsi-first interface is built for exactly this kind of international title reaching a Persian-speaking audience.