Blu-ray, DVD Release: The Beast (2023)

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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Dec. 10, 2024
Price: DVD $17.49, Blu-ray $20.99
Studio: Jnaus Contemporaries/Criterion

By the year 2044, artificial intelligence reigns, and human emotions are a liability that must be surgically removed to produce a more pliant workforce. But this procedure triggers Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux, No Time to Die) to experience haunting memories of her past lives, as she encounters different incarnations of her paramour, Louis (George MacKay, Captain Fantastic), first in belle epoque Paris and then in 2014 Los Angeles. As she once more undergoes the pains and pleasures of romance—and rediscovers what it means to be truly alive—Gabrielle awaits the erasure of her humanity with growing fascination and dread.

In his most ambitious film yet, visionary French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello (Saint Laurent) freely adapts Henry James’s novella The Beast in the Jungle into a visually stunning science-fiction labyrinth that is as metaphysically mysterious as it is emotionally powerful. Powered by Seydoux’s heartrending performance, The Beast poignantly imagines the consequences of humankind becoming too afraid to risk the inherent vulnerability of love.

Bonus features include the following:

  • Meet the Filmmakers, a new interview with director Bertrand Bonello
  • Trailer
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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.