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La bête [1975] Young Lisbeth Hummel arrives at an isolated French estate to be married
off to the scion of a noble family. The groom needs to shave several
times a day and has an oddly bandaged hand, which makes the girl notice
other odd clues - obscene doodles on the back of a picture, a torn corset
in a glass case, significant carvings - that refer to a legend about
the congress between an ancestress of the family [Sirpa Lane] and an
ape-bear-wolf creature. The centerpiece of director Walerian Borowczyk's
fantasy comes the heroine dreams of the Marie Antoinette-look beauty's
encounter with the beast, who seems to have a bicycle pump in place
of a penis and whose snarling lechery is comically countered when the
very demanding former virgin demands so much sex that she exhausts him
completely. Very pretty, more charming than arousing, and solemnly silly. First Published In: Empire Visit Kim's Official Website at www.johnnyalucard.com
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