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Stories of Passion, Murder, and a Mysterious Coastal Creature

Coastside Film Society

November 21, 2008

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La Bete Humaine (The Human Beast) is a tense, psychological thriller produced in 1938 by the legendary French director Jean Renoir based on a novel by Emile Zola. Railroad engineer Jacques Lantier (Jean Gabin) lusts after Severine (Simone Simon), who is the wife of Roubaud, a railroad station master (Fernand Ledoux). When Lantier stumbles across Roubaud murdering another man, who has done Severine wrong, Lantier is faced with many conflicted motivations. In the course of the film we discover that Lantier has quite a few skeletons lurking in his own closet. So too does his love Severine. It is a deliciously convoluted film noir in which the plot line has more branches than the gritty railroad line on which it all takes place.

A film short, Coastal Creature will also be shown. Local construction engineer and videographer Rob Carey's encounter with a mysterious creature lurking on one of the local beaches.

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  Tickets: $6

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  Dates:
  November 21, 2008

  Times:
  7:30pm

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  Community United Methodist Church

  777 Miramontes Street Half Moon Bay, CA 94019

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  • Wheelchair Access

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