The Beast (2023)
(La bête)
Country: FR/CAN
Technical: col/1.85:1(1.33:1) 146m
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Cast: Léa Seydoux, George McKay, Guslagie Malanda
Synopsis:
A woman carries with her the presentiment of something dreadful occurring, and pursues a young man who once swore to keep guard over her and share her fate.
Review:
This Lynchian nightmare of a film has elements of dystopian thrillers such as Equals, but also incorporates aspects of period drama encompassing historic Parisian flooding and Schönberg's Verklärte Nacht. Segments bleed into each other in a Mulholland Dr. way, and the film constantly wrong foots your expectations. Many will find its overextended obscurantism self-defeating: it could amount to the memories of past lives that flash through the heroine's mind at the moment of death, or be a compendium of contemporary anxieties (body image, random shootings, internet safety, environmental catastrophe, A.I.). Whatever the case it amounts to a highly formal, cinematically involving study in dread and longing, with a standout performance from the increasingly mercurial Seydoux.
(La bête)
Country: FR/CAN
Technical: col/1.85:1(1.33:1) 146m
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Cast: Léa Seydoux, George McKay, Guslagie Malanda
Synopsis:
A woman carries with her the presentiment of something dreadful occurring, and pursues a young man who once swore to keep guard over her and share her fate.
Review:
This Lynchian nightmare of a film has elements of dystopian thrillers such as Equals, but also incorporates aspects of period drama encompassing historic Parisian flooding and Schönberg's Verklärte Nacht. Segments bleed into each other in a Mulholland Dr. way, and the film constantly wrong foots your expectations. Many will find its overextended obscurantism self-defeating: it could amount to the memories of past lives that flash through the heroine's mind at the moment of death, or be a compendium of contemporary anxieties (body image, random shootings, internet safety, environmental catastrophe, A.I.). Whatever the case it amounts to a highly formal, cinematically involving study in dread and longing, with a standout performance from the increasingly mercurial Seydoux.
(La bête)
Country: FR/CAN
Technical: col/1.85:1(1.33:1) 146m
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Cast: Léa Seydoux, George McKay, Guslagie Malanda
Synopsis:
A woman carries with her the presentiment of something dreadful occurring, and pursues a young man who once swore to keep guard over her and share her fate.
Review:
This Lynchian nightmare of a film has elements of dystopian thrillers such as Equals, but also incorporates aspects of period drama encompassing historic Parisian flooding and Schönberg's Verklärte Nacht. Segments bleed into each other in a Mulholland Dr. way, and the film constantly wrong foots your expectations. Many will find its overextended obscurantism self-defeating: it could amount to the memories of past lives that flash through the heroine's mind at the moment of death, or be a compendium of contemporary anxieties (body image, random shootings, internet safety, environmental catastrophe, A.I.). Whatever the case it amounts to a highly formal, cinematically involving study in dread and longing, with a standout performance from the increasingly mercurial Seydoux.