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The Beast has been brought by the French writer and director Bertrand Bonello, previously known for Coma (2022), Nocturama (2016) or L'Apollonide (2011). This newest piece makes the journey between different genres and conventions, all the while combining pleasure and lightness with heaviness and an inevitable premonition – a feeling of impending doom. We follow the story of Gabrielle Monier (Léa Seydoux) living in 2044, where her emotional attachment to her previous lives prevents her from living a fairly content, emotionless existence in the A.I. - controlled society. She keeps on trying to purify her DNA to get rid of painful memories and strong sensibilities, but they continue to resurface with the emergence of a mysterious Louis Lewansky (George MacKay) and his various incarnations. Feelings start to flourish between the two, doing so in completely different ways depending on the state of the world the characters meet in. The Beast not only plays with the viewer’s expectations, using generic conventions from period dramas, horror or science-fiction. It is also asking, how important it is to actually acknowledge and nurture emotions and feelings instead of succumbing to the bland existence and detachment, whilst showing how these previous experiences might shape one’s identity.
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