2023 - 68th Edition
Official section - Feature films

THE BEAST

Bertrand Bonello
France, Canada
 - 2023
National premiere

In a near future where artificial intelligence reigns supreme, human emotions have become a threat. To get rid of them, Gabrielle must purify her DNA by going back into her past lives. There, she reunites with Louis, her great love. But she’s overcome by fear, a premonition that catastrophe is on the way.

Bertrand Bonello

He was born in Nice (France) in 1968, and his work alternates between the fields of music and film. In 1996 he adapted an autobiographical book by Pasolini into the creative documentary ‘Qui je suis’. His first feature film ‘Something Organic’ (1998), was presented in the Panorama section of the Berlin Festival, and his next work, ‘The Pornographer’ (2001), at the Cannes Critics’ Week, where it won the Fipresci award. He competed in the Official Selection of Cannes for the first time with ‘Tiresia’ (2003), and in 2008 he presented ‘On War’ in the festival’s Fortnight. A regular presence at the French competition, he has presented his feature films ‘House of Tolerance’ (2011), ‘Saint Laurent’ (2014; represented France at the Oscars and received ten César nominations.) and ‘Zombi Child’ (2020) there, while he premiered ‘Nocturama’ (2016) in San Sebastian, ‘Coma’ (2022) in Berlin and ‘The Beast’ (2023) in Venice. In 2014 he was the subject of an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou and published his album ‘Accidents’.

DIRECTOR
Bertrand Bonello
SCREENPLAY
Bertrand Bonello
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Josée Deshaies
EDITOR
Anita Roth
SOUND
Nicolas Cantin, Clément Laforce, Jean-Pierre Laforce
MUSIC
Bertrand Bonello, Anna Bonello
PRODUCTION
Justin Taurand, Bertrand Bonello, Nancy Grant, Xavier Dolan
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Les Films du Bélier, My New Picture, Sons of Manual, Arte France Cinéma, Ami Paris
CAST
Léa Seydoux, George MacKay, Guslagie Malanda, Dasha Nekrasova, Martin Scali, Elina Löwensohn, Marta Hoskins, Julia Faure
RUNNING TIME
146 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2023
VERSION
O.V. in English and French with English and Spanish subtitles
COUNTRY
France, Canada
CONTACT
IN SPAIN

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