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# The Beast (dir. Bertrand Bonello, 2024)
- URL: https://clearing.drmcipa.net/the-beast-dir-bertrand-bonello-2024/
- Published: 2026-06-27T12:30:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-30T03:24:51.000Z
- Author: Dr Matthew Cipa

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*The Beast* is a film of inhabitation. Its sectioned, temporally expansive narrative strands avoid the cosmic gimmick of the Wachowskis *Cloud Atlas*. Anchored instead in a space that updates and changes the felt and material markers of historical and geographical time while keeping something constant across all of it: the pain of authentic feeling, and the way wrongness shifts things askew.

It is the first contemporary film I have seen doing something genuinely new.