2017 · drama · thriller · tunisian
Beauty and the Dogs
Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania1h 40m2017
When Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, is raped by police officers after leaving a party, she is propelled into a harrowing night in which she must fight for her rights even though justice lies on the side of her tormentors.
Our read: Beauty and the Dogs (2017) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded drama · thriller · tunisian entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
Watching Beauty and the Dogs tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
?
Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
Availability in the US · via JustWatch
More info & search links
How Beauty and the Dogs feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a tense real-time drama about one woman's fight against a corrupt system.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if stories of sexual assault and bureaucratic cruelty will distress you.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like Beauty and the Dogs, with why →
Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
Pick tonight's film →