Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast, starring Léa Seydoux and George MacKay (original score by Bertrand and Anna Bonello), is a highlight in the Main Slate of the 61st New York Film Festival. In the 1903 novella The Beast, the female protagonist proclaims: “That’s it. It’s all that concerns me - to help you to pass for a man like another.” The male protagonist is happy to hear this and after a grave pause she continues, “By going on as you are.”
The Civil War mentioned as an aside in Bonello’s film, which takes place in three distinct points in time, is that of 2025. As musical variations on a theme, The Beast explores what Henry James diagnosed so devastatingly. The chill of egotism and the feverish dance around the void are...
The Civil War mentioned as an aside in Bonello’s film, which takes place in three distinct points in time, is that of 2025. As musical variations on a theme, The Beast explores what Henry James diagnosed so devastatingly. The chill of egotism and the feverish dance around the void are...
- 10/4/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Bertrand Bonello’s inspired The Beast (La Bête) is a highlight of the 61st New York Film Festival Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Jonathan Glazer’s brilliant Cannes Grand Prix winner The Zone Of Interest (UK Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film) starring Sandra Hüller and Christian Friedel (of the Babylon Berlin series), Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast starring Léa Seydoux and George MacKay (original score by Bertrand and Anna Bonello); Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves starring Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen (with a Bill Murray and Adam Driver scene from Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die) are three highlights from the Main Slate. Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy And The Heron in the Spotlight programme round out the four early bird highlights of the 61st New York...
Jonathan Glazer’s brilliant Cannes Grand Prix winner The Zone Of Interest (UK Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film) starring Sandra Hüller and Christian Friedel (of the Babylon Berlin series), Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast starring Léa Seydoux and George MacKay (original score by Bertrand and Anna Bonello); Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves starring Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen (with a Bill Murray and Adam Driver scene from Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die) are three highlights from the Main Slate. Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy And The Heron in the Spotlight programme round out the four early bird highlights of the 61st New York...
- 9/27/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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