Release Date: December 10, 2024
Prices and Links:
Criterion- $23.96
Amazon- $20.99
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Writers: Bertrand Bonello, Benjamin Charbit
Starring: Léa Seydoux, George MacKay, Philippe Katerine
By the year 2044, artificial intelligence reigns, and human emotions are a liability that must be surgically removed to produce a more pliant workforce. But this procedure triggers Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) to experience haunting memories of her past lives, as she encounters different incarnations of her paramour, Louis (George MacKay), first in belle epoque Paris and then in 2014 Los Angeles. As she once more undergoes the pains and pleasures of romance—and rediscovers what it means to be truly alive—Gabrielle awaits the erasure of her humanity with growing fascination and dread. In his most ambitious film yet, visionary director Bertrand Bonello freely adapts Henry James’s novella The Beast in the Jungle into a visually stunning science-fiction labyrinth that is as metaphysically mysterious as it is emotionally powerful. Powered by Seydoux’s heartrending performance, The Beast poignantly imagines the consequences of humankind becoming too afraid to risk the inherent vulnerability of love.
Prices and Links:
Criterion- $23.96
Amazon- $20.99
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Writers: Bertrand Bonello, Benjamin Charbit
Starring: Léa Seydoux, George MacKay, Philippe Katerine
- France
- 2023
- 147 minutes
- Color
- 1.85:1/1.33:1
- French, English
By the year 2044, artificial intelligence reigns, and human emotions are a liability that must be surgically removed to produce a more pliant workforce. But this procedure triggers Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) to experience haunting memories of her past lives, as she encounters different incarnations of her paramour, Louis (George MacKay), first in belle epoque Paris and then in 2014 Los Angeles. As she once more undergoes the pains and pleasures of romance—and rediscovers what it means to be truly alive—Gabrielle awaits the erasure of her humanity with growing fascination and dread. In his most ambitious film yet, visionary director Bertrand Bonello freely adapts Henry James’s novella The Beast in the Jungle into a visually stunning science-fiction labyrinth that is as metaphysically mysterious as it is emotionally powerful. Powered by Seydoux’s heartrending performance, The Beast poignantly imagines the consequences of humankind becoming too afraid to risk the inherent vulnerability of love.
INCLUDES
- Meet the Filmmakers, a new interview with director Bertrand Bonello
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
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