Bertrand Bonello: "Today's narcissism has turned feelings into something dangerous" The beast is a film that is happy in the perplexity in which it unfolds. Based not so distantly on Henry James' story The Beast in the Jungle, the film lives in the same tenacity, which is also uncertainty, of the text.
The director turns the texture of the film into the setting that is both recognizable and perfectly strange for a nightmare without time, without past, without present and perhaps without future.