The Beast in the Jungle
Dutch director Clara van Gool tackles the Henry James novella The Beast in the Jungle, adapting the text as a dance-based romantic melodrama, stretching the narrative from its 19th century setting to the present. Produced by Hanneke Niens and Hans de Wolf of KeyFilm, with co-production credit for Bady Minck and Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu of Amour Fou Luxembourg, the film is lensed by Richard Van Oosterhout (Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship, 2016) and stars South African choreographer/dancer Dane Jeremy Hurst and Irish dancer Sarah Reynolds. Clara van Gool won an Emmy Award for performing arts for 1996’s Enter Achilles.
Gist: Adapting alongside British poet Glyn Maxwell, this concerns the epic, mystical romance between John Marcher and May Bartram.
Release Date/Prediction: The Beast in the Jungle will premiere at the 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam before a domestic release in March. The trailer dropped in November.
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