The Beast

Name: The Beast
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller, Romance
Released: April 5, 2024
Duration: 146 min
Rating: 80
Cast: Dasha Nekrasova, Elina Löwensohn, Felicien Pinot, George MacKay, Guslagie Malanga

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Janus Film | Release Date: April 5, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Dasha Nekrasova, Elina Löwensohn, Felicien Pinot, George MacKay, Guslagie Malanga, Jiselle Henderkott, Julia Faure, Kester Lovelace, Léa Seydoux, Lukas Ionesco, Marta Hoskins, Martin Scali, Parker Henry, Tiffany Hofstetter

Summary: The year is 2044: artificial intelligence controls all facets of a stoic society as humans routinely “erase” their feelings. Hoping to eliminate pain caused by their past-life romances, Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) continually falls in love with different incarnations of Louis (George MacKay). Set first in Belle Époque-era Paris Louis is aThe year is 2044: artificial intelligence controls all facets of a stoic society as humans routinely “erase” their feelings. Hoping to eliminate pain caused by their past-life romances, Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) continually falls in love with different incarnations of Louis (George MacKay). Set first in Belle Époque-era Paris Louis is a British man who woos her away from a cold husband, then in early 21st Century Los Angeles, he is a disturbed American bent on delivering violent “retribution.” Will the process allow Gabrielle to fully connect with Louis in the present, or are the two doomed to repeat their previous fates? … Expand

Director: Bertrand Bonello

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 146 min

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Empire Steph Green

May 28, 2024

By putting technology on trial as the chief parasite causing modern malaise, but fusing it with a melodrama about love, Bonello has created a wholly original work that pulses with prescience. Read full review

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Keith Uhlich

Sep 12, 2023

Bertrand Bonello uncannily utilizes burdensome signs and wonders for maximum insight and agitation. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Sep 5, 2023

The film’s true power stems from and speaks to our specifically present condition as people beset on all sides by the fears of our own imagination. By the trauma of something that already happened, or the terror of something that might. Read full review

Jonathan Romney

Sep 5, 2023

Each of the film’s three strands has its own dramatic flaws and virtues. But what is most intriguing is the way that the stories are braided, both in editor Anita Roth’s intercutting and in the establishing of visual parallels. Read full review

Alison Willmore

Apr 6, 2024

It overflows with intriguing ideas, even if they aren’t all fully explored. Read full review

Jordan Mintzer

Sep 5, 2023

The film maintains a certain level of suspense as it leaps between various epochs, often without warning. But, like many of Bonello’s movies, it lacks forward momentum and a sharp edit, lumbering along as it reaches into a grab bag of thematic and aesthetic concepts. Read full review

Richard Whittaker

Apr 25, 2024

In one of those odd happenstances of cinema, The Beast shares those themes of processing romantic trauma through temporal displacement with Alice Lowe’s Monty Python-esque Timestalker: but La bête lacks its pithiness and humanity. Read full review

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