Blood moon whips up patriarchal hysteria in coming-of-age Cannes movie
“Mi Bestia”, which screened at the Cannes Film Festival’s parallel segment ACID, follows a 13-year-old Bogota girl grappling with adolescence amid an impending lunar eclipse said to bring the devil to earth. FRANCE 24 spoke to director Beltrán, whose debut feature offers a visually bold study of patriarchal oppression in her native Colombia.
“Mi Bestia”, which screened at the Cannes Film Festival’s parallel segment ACID, follows a 13-year-old Bogota girl grappling with adolescence amid an impending lunar eclipse said to bring the devil to earth. FRANCE 24 spoke to director Beltrán, whose debut feature offers a visually bold study of patriarchal oppression in her native Colombia.
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