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The Beast

La Bête

  • Status: Released
  • 07-02-2024
  • Runtime: 146 min
  • Score: 6.324
  • Vote count: 202

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.

Léa Seydoux

Gabrielle

George MacKay

Louis

Guslagie Malanda

Poupée Kelly

Dasha Nekrasova

Dakota

Martin Scali

Georges

Elina Löwensohn

La voyante

Marta Hoskins

Gina

Julia Faure

Sophie

Kester Lovelace

Tom

Félicien Pinot

Augustin

Laurent Lacotte

L'architecte

Pierre-François Garel

Paul Poiret

Céline Carrère

Femme bal 1910

Lukas Ionesco

Anton

Hortense Gelinet

Femme bal 1910

Pauline Jacquard

Femme bal 1910

Alice Barnole

Femme bal 1910

Théo Hakola

Le barman clubs

Antoine Barraud

Homme club 1972

Dejana Poposka

Femme clubs

Galice Cassagnes

Femme clubs

Isabelle Prim

Femme clubs

Veronica Szawarska

Femme clubs

Lottie Andersen

Femme clubs

Matthias El Koulali

Homme clubs

Tom Neal

Assistant réalisateur pub sécurité routière

Tiffany Hofstetter

Femme pub sécurité routière

Dimitri Michelsen

Homme pub sécurité routière

Rémi Canaple

Homme pub sécurité routière

Yasmin Van Deventer

Femme casting mannequins

Jean-Baptiste Heuet

Homme casting mannequins

Thomas Hayward

Chanteur émission karaoké

Andrew Eldridge

Chanteur émission karaoké

Marc Reed

Chanteur émission karaoké

Barry Johnson

Chanteur émission karaoké

Xavier Dolan

Système intelligence artificielle (voice)

Adam Carage

Mr. Denver (voice)

Bertrand Bonello

Réalisateur fond vert (voice)

Doug Rand

Voix service sécurité (voice)

Gianna Salguerio

Doublure piano

Jiselle Henderkott

Danseur club (uncredited)

Joa Jappont

Danseur club (uncredited)

CinemaSerf

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.