To love is to feel, and to feel is to suffer—truths that become intricately intertwined across space and time in The Beast, the saga of a woman and a man linked by fate and connected across eras. Loosely inspired by Henry James’ 1903 short story “The Beast in the Jungle,” French auteur Bertrand Bonello’s latest is a decidedly unique sci-fi saga, and while its assortment of recurring images, conversations, scenes, and dynamics intermittently borders on the exhausting, it plays as an intriguing meditation on desire, dreams, and the things that make us who we are—and without which we’re lost.
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