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Summary 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 previous lives and rid her of any strong feelings. She then meets Louis and feels a powerful connection, as if she has known him forever. A melodrama crossed by the genre, which unfolds over three ...

Directed By: Bertrand Bonello

Written By: Guillaume Bréaud, Benjamin Charbit, Henry James, Bertrand Bonello

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The Beast
Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 11 Critic Reviews
83
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Summary 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 previous lives and rid her of any strong feelings. She then meets Louis and feels a powerful connection, as if she has known him forever. A melodrama crossed by the genre, which unfolds over three ...

Directed By: Bertrand Bonello

Written By: Guillaume Bréaud, Benjamin Charbit, Henry James, Bertrand Bonello

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 11 Critic Reviews
83
91% Positive
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9% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 11 Critic Reviews
83
91% Positive
10 Reviews
9% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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100
Sep 12, 2023
Bertrand Bonello uncannily utilizes burdensome signs and wonders for maximum insight and agitation.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
91
Sep 14, 2023
Across each twist in time and place that can rush together without warning, the grounding force to it all is Seydoux.
By Chase Hutchinson FULL REVIEW
91
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.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
83
Sep 5, 2023
Although it is true that The Beast would greatly benefit from a gentle trimming in its first hour, it is easy to forgive the indulgence when the result is such a remarkable commentary on the looming threats of artificial intelligence and the dangers of glorified emotional numbness.
By Rafaela Sales Ross FULL REVIEW
80
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.
By Jonathan Romney FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 14, 2023
The Beast is a bold, creative, and heady dystopian film that clocks in way too long at 145 minutes.
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60
Sep 5, 2023
Laden with enticing ideas and images that never quite activate each other, “The Beast” instead coagulates into a thick 146-minute triptych of general, fidgeting malaise, and strands a hard-working Léa Seydoux and George MacKay in a cross-time, cross-purposes relationship that keeps shape-shifting without getting us terribly involved.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Arte France Cinéma, Eurimages, Les Films du Bélier, My New Picture, Sons of Manual
Duration 2 h 26 m
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Awards

Venice Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Valladolid International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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