THE BEAST at Pop's Art Theater
Schedule
Fri May 03 2024 at 03:00 pm to Thu May 09 2024 at 11:00 pm
Location
Pop's Art Theater | Rochester, MN
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Trailer:The year is 2044: artificial intelligence controls all facets of a stoic society as humans routinely “erase” their feelings. Hoping to eliminate pain caused by their past-life romances, Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) continually falls in love with different incarnations of Louis (George MacKay). Set first in Belle Époque-era Paris, Louis is a British man who woos her away from a cold husband, then in early 21st Century Los Angeles, he is a disturbed American bent on delivering violent “retribution.” Will the process allow Gabrielle to fully connect with Louis in the present, or are the two doomed to repeat their previous fates? Visually audacious director Bertrand Bonello (Saint Laurent, Nocturama) fashions his most accomplished film to date: a sci-fi epic, inspired by Henry James' turn-of-the-century novella, suffused with mounting dread and a haunting sense of mystery. Punctuated by a career-defining, three-role performance by Seydoux, The Beast poignantly conveys humanity’s struggle against dissociative identity and emotionless existence.
"A vast unsettling dream of the future and the past."
FIVE STARS
- Peter Bradshow, The Guardian
"Léa Seydoux is a revelation.”
- Damon Wise, Deadline
“A monumental and menacing science fiction journey.”
- Chase Hutchinson, Collider
"Magnificent. Sweeping, romantic, and ravishingly strange. A sci-fi epic about the fear of falling in love. A fairy tale of sorts — one whose moral instructs us to live in the moment, lest we not live at all. The film stands by the courage of its convictions by forcing us to feel something, too. Don’t be afraid to admit it.”
- David Ehrlich, Indiewire
2024 | 146 min. | NR | France
Dir. Bertrand Bonello
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Where is it happening?
Pop's Art Theater, 619 6th Ave NW, Rochester, MN 55901-2672, United States,Rochester, MinnesotaEvent Location & Nearby Stays: