The Beast

2024

DramaScience FictionRomance

In the near future where emotions have become a threat, Gabrielle finally decides to purify her DNA in a machine that will immerse her in her past lives and rid her of any strong feelings. She then meets Louis and feels a powerful connection, as if she had known him forever.

"You remember, don't you? That we have already met?"

Rating

6.3
190 votes

Popularity

6.5527

Origin & Countries

FR | fr | France,Canada

Production

Les films du Bélier,My New Picture,Sons of Manual,ARTE France Cinéma,AMI,Jamal Zeinal Zade

Runtime

146 min.

Budget (M$)

0.8 / 8.4ROI 10%

Status

Released

Release: 2/7/2024

Credits

The Beast

Bertrand BonelloDirector

The Beast

Léa SeydouxGabrielle

The Beast

George MacKayLouis

The Beast

Guslagie MalandaPoupée Kelly

The Beast

Dasha NekrasovaDakota

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

3/9/2024

7 / 10

Though it's really way too long, I did rather enjoy the developing chemistry here between Léa Seydoux ("Gabrielle") and George MacKay's "Louis". The story isn't really structured, it's all largely dictated from her consciousness lounging in the bath of Guinness no longer needed by "Baron Harkkonen" where she is having her DNA cleansed. This is ostensibly to make her life happier and more fulfilled, to take the rough edges off disappointment and pain - and generally to turn her into a rather soporific drone. The thing is, whilst plugged in and gently soaking we discover that her brain isn't co-operating with the process and that she is having very lifelike fantasies - historical, contemporary and futuristic with the handsome and enigmatic "Louis". The story in itself isn't really up to very much. It's an episodic jaunt through what is/was/might be their lives - together and apart. What does work well is the ambiguity. The sense that artificial intelligence, either working on it's own or at the behest of humanity, can rearrange our thoughts and our memories. It can create as convincingly as it can delete comprehensively - and all because there is a sense that emotions are unpredictable, unreliable and therefore a threat to the stability of a new "natural order". The dialogue can meander into the realms of psycho-babble now and again which does detract from the subtle but clear thrust of the narrative, but it is actually quite a scary prognosis of what might become fact if we are not careful to protect what is real and important.

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