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This science fiction melodrama with an impeccable Léa Seydoux in the main role jumps between past lives, each haunted by love. The Beast, the tenth feature from Bertrand Bonello, uses grand genre flourishes to tell this outwardly epic tale about inner turmoil. That tension plays out largely across Seydoux’s meticulously expressive face: framed in period costume, immersed in black liquid, against green screens or on CCTV. All towards an eerie voyeurism that blurs memory and reality, past and present, character and performer.