You might not guess it from the title or from the content or the lact of content or indeed anything else but this little-seen movie is an adaptation of a Henry James novella that begins in a contemporary setting before moving back in time to a more typically Jamesian era and then forward again. Co-written and directed by Clara van Gool, "The Beast in the Jungle" is a strange, slow mix of dance, theatre and film unlikely to trouble the mulitplex crowd of a Saturday night. This Netherlands produced, English-language picture is Art House with a capital A and is hugely pretentious. It's little wonder it came and went without anyone noticing. Nobody acts in the film; they just say their lines and move around each other and while it's less than 90 minutes long it feels as if it's going on forever.
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