Leá Seydoux and George MacKay play star-crossed lovers, sort of, in “The Beast,” a tale of fatalistic reincarnation.
The film “The Beast” is a Russian nesting doll of genres: a belle epoque romance set inside a contemporary serial-killer thriller set inside a dystopian sci-fi drama. The last of these three storylines — which acts as this uncategorizable French film’s framing device — takes place in the year 2044, after a soulless artificial intelligence has taken over all aspects of life in the wake of civil war.
At least, that’s how it’s said to work, in writer-director Bertrand Bonello’s audaciously trippy adaptation of “The Beast in the Jungle,” a 1903 novella by Henry James about obsession and destiny that in this telling morphs into a tale of fatalistic reincarnation. If at first you don’t succeed, live, live again.
In James’s novella, that unsettling premonition was the metaphorical beast. Here, it’s unclear whether it’s that or simply the pain of being alive, compounded by all our histories.In the Parisian story, Louis is a debonair Englishman who sweeps Gabrielle, a pianist, off her feet behind the back of her doll-maker husband .
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