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Bertrand Bonello is shooting The Beast

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- Léa Seydoux and George MacKay headline the production led by Les Films du Bélier and sold by Kinology

Bertrand Bonello is shooting The Beast
Director Bertrand Bonello (© Georges Biard), actress Léa Seydoux (© Georges Biard) and actor George MacKay (© gdcgraphics)

First clapperboard today for the shooting of The Beast [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Bertrand Bonello
film profile
]
, the 9th feature film by Bertrand Bonello, selected six times in Cannes (in competition in 2003, 2011 and 2014 with Tiresia, House of Tolerance [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Adèle Haenel
film profile
]
and Saint Laurent [+see also:
film review
trailer
Q&A: Bertrand Bonello
film profile
]
, twice in Directors’ Fortnight in 2008 and 2009 with On War [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
and Zombi Child [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Bertrand Bonello
film profile
]
, once in Critics’ Week in 2001 with The Pornographer), once in competition in San Sebastián (Nocturama [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Bertrand Bonello
film profile
]
in 2016) and this year in Berlin in the Encounters programme with Coma [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Bertrand Bonello
film profile
]
.

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In the cast shine Léa Seydoux (recently nominated for the Best Actress César for France [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Bruno Dumont
film profile
]
; appreciated last May on the Croisette in One Fine Morning [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
and Crimes of the Future [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
; and who just shot Dune: Part Two) and British actor George MacKay (Captain Fantastic, 1917 [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
, True History of the Kelly Gang [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
, recently in Wolf and Munich: The Edge of War [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
and soon in the Netflix film I Came By).

Written by Bertrand Bonello with contributions from Guillaume Bréaud (nominated for a 2006 César for best screenplay for The Young Lieutenant [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
) and Benjamin Charbit, the script plunges into a near future where emotions have become a threat. Gabrielle finally decides to purify her DNA in a machine that will plunge her into her past lives and rid her of all strong feelings. She then meets Louis and feels a powerful connection, as if she had always known him...

Produced by Justin Taurand for Les Films du Bélier, The Beast is co-produced by Arte France Cinéma, My New Picture and the Canadians of Sons of Manual. Pre-bought by Canal+ and Ciné+, the feature film also benefits from the support of Eurimages, Sodec, the Provence-Alpes Côte d'Azur and Ile-de-France regions, as well as the support of the Alpes-Maritimes department and a pool of Sofica (Cinéaxe, SG Image, Palatine Étoile, Cinémage, Cofinova and Cinecap). Shooting is scheduled to last 40 days. Distribution in France will be handled by Ad Vitam and international sales will be handled by Kinology.

For the record, Les Films du Bélier have in post-production Katell Quillévéré's Along Came Love [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Katell Quillévéré
film profile
]
 and Manu Laskar's Le Médium (news), and will launch Coma in French cinemas on 16 November.

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(Translated from French)

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