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BEAST Q&A - BFI London Film Festival 2017
The BFI's Kate Taylor is joined by first-time feature director Michael Pearce, actor Jessie Buckley and producer Ivanna MacKinnon to discuss the making of Beast, screening in the First Feature Competition, at the BFI London Film Festival.
While celebrating her birthday, Moll drifts away from the party and finds herself eye-to-piercing-blue-eye with Pascal, a local poacher and police suspect. The attraction between these two damaged souls is immediate and palpable, and the film captures both the euphoric flush of first love and the heady insanity of sexual obsession. Meanwhile, a string of murders across Jersey has the island's inhabitants primed for a witch hunt, and Moll and Pascal both already have black marks against them. Can they find a way to break free of social prejudice? With compelling lead performances from Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn, director Michael Pearce has created an intoxicating film that employs a vast cinematic canvas and bends genre expectations to its will.