THE BEAST

Showings

Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Fri, Apr 19 3:20 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 3 Fri, Apr 19 6:35 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Fri, Apr 19 9:40 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1 Sat, Apr 20 2:55 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 3 Sat, Apr 20 7:20 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Sun, Apr 21 4:30 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Sun, Apr 21 7:45 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1 Mon, Apr 22 1:30 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1 Mon, Apr 22 7:15 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Tue, Apr 23 1:40 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Tue, Apr 23 7:25 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Wed, Apr 24 1:40 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Wed, Apr 24 7:25 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Thu, Apr 25 1:30 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Thu, Apr 25 7:25 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 3 Fri, Apr 26 9:10 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1 Sat, Apr 27 3:45 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 3 Sun, Apr 28 7:40 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Mon, Apr 29 4:00 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 3 Tue, Apr 30 7:00 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1 Wed, May 1 3:55 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 3 Thu, May 2 4:00 PM

Description

THE BEAST

Using Henry James’s haunting 1903 short story “The Beast in the Jungle” as his film’s provocative inspiration, award-winning French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello crafts an ambitious time-hopping sci-fi epic about a young woman (Léa Seydoux) who undergoes a surgical process to have her DNA—and therefore memories of all her past lives—removed. In so doing, she realizes her fate has long been intertwined with a young man (George MacKay). Touching on modern anxieties of AI, The Beast, asks vital questions about the ever-shifting status of humanity itself. (France, Canada, 2024, 146 mins, French, English | Dir. Bertrand Bonello)