Jean Renoir's generous sensibility seems at odds with the sterile determinism of the Zola novel on which this 1938 film was based.
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This review of La Bête Humaine (1938) was written by Dave Kehr and published by Chicago Reader on 01 Jan 2000.
La Bête Humaine has generally received very positive reviews.
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