Who Is Beta

The critical success in France of How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman made possible dos Santos delirious sciencefiction vision of free love in a postapocalyptic wilderness besieged by flesh hungry zombies contaminated by an unnamed nuclear attack Who is Beta follows two statuesque survivors drawn irresistibly together only to be entranced by the arrival and sudden disappearance of a third the bewitching raven haired Beta With its cartoonlike depiction of extreme violence and desire Who is Beta offers a heady Popinfused companion to Hunger for Love Yet beneath its giddy play of surfaces dos Santos underappreciated film gradually reveals a darkly ambiguous metaphoric dimension Harvard Film Archive