The Beast
Director: Bertrand Bonello Run Time: 147 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: French w/English subtitles
Starring: Dasha Nekrasova, George MacKay, Guslagie Malanda, Léa Seydoux, Martin Scali
Visually audacious director Bertrand Bonello (Nocturama) fashions his most accomplished film to date: a sci-fi epic, inspired by Henry James’ turn-of-the-century novella, The Beast in the Jungle, suffused with mounting dread and a haunting sense of mystery. Punctuated by a career-defining, three-role performance by Seydoux, THE BEAST poignantly conveys humanity’s struggle against dissociative identity and emotionless existence. – Janus Films
Double Feature with LA CHIMERA (5:15)
“A textually dense, formally ambitious, and supremely engaging, genre-melding treatise on fear and love.” – Chicago Reader
“An audacious interdimensional romance, techno-thriller and Los Angeles noir rolled up in one.” – New York Times