In the 18th century, during the reign of Louis XV, the Château de Saint-Alban is haunted by deadly attacks by a beast. Two centuries later, an asylum is transformed into an open hospital, where patients and caregivers stage a play about the beast each year. In this thought-provoking reinterpretation of the legend of the beast, Isabelle Prim navigates the thin limit between artifice and falsehood, between performance and real life, between insanity and ‘sanity’…

Special screening

The screening of 30 November at 13.00 will be followed by a Q&A with director Isabelle Prim, moderated by Cyril Neyrat (artistic Director of FID Marseille)

Next Showing

Ciné Lumière II

In partnership with

Edinburgh