Plot Summary

Here's an article I found about La Belle Bête. It's based on the book La Belle Bête a.k.a Mad Shadows.

Strained family relations in La Belle bête

Montreal: La Belle bête, the first adaptation of a novel by acclaimed Quebec writer Marie-Claire Blais, has wrapped in Montreal. The film, also written by Blais, centers on a mother who favors her son while rejecting her daughter.

Appearing are Caroline Dhavernas (Wonderfalls), David La Haye (La Vie avec mon père) and Marc-André Grondin (C.R.A.Z.Y. and one of Playback's 2005 10 to Watch), with Karim Hussain (Subconscious Cruelty) directing.

Acting vet Carole Laure plays the tormented mother, who has a near-incestuous relationship with her cherished son (Grondin), while abusing her alienated daughter (Dhavernas).

The $1.2-million La Belle bête is coproduced by Hussain, Anne Cusson and Julien Fronfrede of Screen Machine and executive produced by Michael Mosca and Lyse Lafontaine of Equinoxe Films, with Equinoxe distributing in 2006.