Using Henry James’s haunting 1903 short story “The Beast in the Jungle” as his film’s provocative inspiration, award-winning French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello crafts an ambitious time-hopping epic about a young woman (Léa Seydoux) who undergoes a surgical process to have her DNA—and therefore memories of all her past lives—removed. In so doing, she realizes her fate has long been intertwined with a young man (George MacKay). Touching on modern anxieties of AI, The Beast, asks vital questions about the ever-shifting status of humanity itself.
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