It’s often a dubious sign when a film about a real life icon starts with a title card saying “What follows is (mostly) fiction,” and that’s precisely the wrong foot that the cheaply produced musical “biopic” Stardust puts forward and never recovers from.
Johnny Flynn
Beast, writer-director Michael Pearce’s unlikely mash-up of a rural romantic drama and a serial killer film, is haunting, disturbing, and remarkably nuanced.
We catch up with British writer-director Michael Pearce to talk about his debut feature Beast (opening in select Canadian cities on Friday, June 15), a moral and thrilling relationship drama set in his former hometown of Jersey in the Channel Islands.