Parking: There is a parking lot at Blue Star Complex. If it is full, street parking is also available nearby (ex: Probandt St).
Ticket Prices:
$12/Non-members; $10/Members
*All sales are final. No refunds or exchanges will be given. Seating is limited. Pre-purchase/RSVP is required. RSVP deadline: 5pm 24 September.
About the film:
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, The Beast in the
Jungle,
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.
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