Like Gabrielle waiting for the metaphorical “beast” to swallow her whole, with a Bertrand Bonello joint you’re always prepared for something to happen, for the whole film to veer into terrain both surreal and unsettling.
Like Léa Seydoux waiting for the metaphorical “beast” to swallow her whole, with a Bertrand Bonello joint you’re always prepared for something to happen, for the whole film to veer into terrain both surreal and unsettling.
a movie that is both a period piece and a critique of period pieces
Bertrand Bonello crammed so much into The Beast, that it threatens to tear at the seams, but Seydoux’s and MacKay’s chemistry holds it together.