The Beast (2023)
First screened in March 2025

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Director: Bertrand Bonello. Cast: Léa Seydoux, George MacKay, Martin Scali, Guslagie Malanda, Elina Löwensohn, Marta Hoskins, Dasha Nekrasova, Kester Lovelace, Laurent Lacotte. Screenplay: Bertrand Bonello and Benjamin Charbit (based loosely and only in part on the story "The Beast in the Jungle" by Henry James).

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Photo © 2023 Les Films du Bélier / My New Picture, © 2024 Janus Films

In Brief: The great secret under which Seydoux strains is whether she's the star of an audacious experiment or a highfalutin mess.

VOR: ④  Hard to deny the fearless aesthetic and conceptual risk-taking, even if the line between outré and cliché gets blurré. See how it ages?

Grade: B–

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