Bertrand Bonello's wildly ambitious new film The Beast is a genre-bending look at technology, human connection, and social pathology. Thinking people's hotties Léa Seydoux and George MacKay are a pair of star-crossed lovers reincarnated across three different time periods, who keep discovering ways (restrictive social mores, toxic masculinity, capitalist crisis) not to be together. So wouldn't it be easier to make a technological tweak to their all-too-frail humanity? 

Working in the tradition of sci-fi romances like Solaris and Eternal Sunshine, The Beast nevertheless achieves something remarkably fresh in its exploration of the way humans are always in the grip of forces beyond our control - even when we've invented them. 

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In a near-future world dominated by artificial intelligence, where human emotions are perceived as a threat, Gabrielle (Lea Seydoux) embarks on a journey to purify her DNA by revisiting her past lives. During this process, she reconnects with Louis (George MacKay), her great love. However, a sense of foreboding and fear grips her as she anticipates an impending catastrophe.

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'Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast is an audacious interdimensional romance, techno-thriller and Los Angeles noir rolled up in one. This shamelessly ambitious epic is about, among other things, civilizational collapse and existential retribution, yet it is held together by something delicate.' - Beatrice Loayza, New York Times

'Though the film is deeply human, you almost picture it as a response to a prompt thrown at ChatGPT: “Make me dreamlike, hyper-modern cinema from a story actually based on a spare 1903 novella by Henry James.”' - Danny Leigh, Financial Times

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Doors: 7:00pm
Screening starts: 7:30pm