BEAST

Moll lives on the Channel Island of Jersey. Even though she is twenty-seven years old, she still lives with her parents. What keeps her there is the small, rather oppressive community which surrounds her and her morbid relationship with her elderly father and very strict mother. Everything changes when she meets Pascal, a foreigner she knows virtually nothing about but who wins her over with his free spirit. Moll, who is hopelessly in love, goes to live with him and begins a new life. But her happiness is short-lived: Pascal is accused of having committed a series of brutal murders. Despite the hostility and the pressure of the locals, Moll stands by her man. But she will have to pay the consequences of this decision.

“I grew up in Jersey and I knew I wanted to make my first film there; it has a very unique landscape – scenic and wild – but it’s also quite conservative in terms of its values and its culture […]. As a child it was both freeing and a little stifling.”

regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/director, story, screenplay
Michael Pearce
fotografia/cinematography
Benjamin Kračun
montaggio/film editing
Maya Maffioli
scenografia/production design
Laura Ellis-Cricks
costumi/costume design
Jo Thompson
musica/music
Jim Williams
suono/sound
Gunnar Óskarsson
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Jessie Buckley (Moll), Johnny Flynn (Pascal), Trystan Gravelle (Clifford), Geraldine James (Hilary)
produttori/producers
Ivan MacKinnon, Lauren Dark, Kristian Brodie
produzione/production
Agile Films, Stay Bear Films