‘Too Many Beasts’ Review: A Small-Town Policeman Gets High on the Hog in a Deliciously Droll French Crime-Caper

There’s been something sinister afoot in provincial France in recent years. Inbred eccentrics and bumbling detectives have populated the seaside villages of Bruno Dumont’s absurdist comedies. Seedy psychosexual drama has leached into the soil of Alain Guiraudie’s farmlands and forest towns, causing poisonous little love triangles to bloom like the wild mushrooms of his “Misericordia.” […]

By Jessica Kiang