Zvērs Biezoknī / Зверь В Чаще/ The Beast

THE BEAST IN THE WOODS

La Bête

France, Canada, 2023, 146 min.

Director: Bertrand Bonello

Henry James loose adaptation of the gothic novel "The Beast in the Thicket".

Starring: Lea Seydoux, George McKay, Guslagi Melonda, Martin Scully

A visually bold, intoxicatingly romantic epic about a woman who falls in love with the same man in the past, present and future.

They were not so much in love, how much stronger and more mysterious - premonitions of some global and irreversible event that will change destiny forever.

This burning fear haunted them like a beast lurking in the thicket ...

Immersed in a labyrinth of memories, Gabriela discovers a strange regularity - she is pursued by the same man in different time spaces.

An aristocratic ball in La Belle Époque France, an infantilely relaxed hipster party in a London club, a phantasmagoric bar somewhere in the future - meeting a stranger is as inevitable as an inexplicable physical attraction accompanied by a premonition of an imminent hidden threat...

What lies behind it - a forbidden passion, a banal adultery or a natural cataclysm approaching Paris?

Fear of intimacy, fear of rejection, or global catastrophe?

Will they be able to be together, or are they destined to break up, repeating the same fate over and over again?

A fascinating journey through several centuries, an intriguing and disturbing story of love and confrontation with an unpredictable ending.

Director Bertrand Bonello transforms the ironic Gothic novel into a postmodern dystopia, a dizzying exploration of obsession, lingering and existential fears.

A finely shot, visually daring experiment in which the romantic drama, psychological thriller and science fiction.

Sensual, intellectual and full of complex ideas, a film that hypnotizes the viewer with a delightful beauty of form and a meditative narrative rhythm

Original language: French, English

Synchronous translation on YOUR audio headphones*: Latvian, Russian

* Plugins are required to hear the translation, which you can get for €1 pledge. After the show, returning the plug will give you €1 back at the exit of the auditorium.

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