One of the best sci-fi movies of the decade is on TV tonight

Headlined by one of the stars of the Dune and James Bond franchises, the epic sci-fi has an 86% Rotten Tomatoes score.

Loosely based on the Henry James novella The Beast in the Jungle, the film begins in a 2044 version of Earth that is recovering from a human-caused global disaster. As a result of the catastrophe, artificial intelligence now controls the world, deeming human emotions a threat.

Also in this near-future world, it has been discovered that humans' strongest emotions are linked to events they experienced in their past lives. People can rid themselves of such feelings by entering a strange machine that allows them to relive these experiences.

As she plunges into her past lives - one as a pianist and doll maker in France in 1910 and another as a model in Los Angeles in 2014 - Gabrielle realises that she also knew Louis during these times, with the pair not always impacting each other for the better...

Watch the trailer for The Beast right here:

With its dialogue half in English and half in French, The Beast is stylish, unpredictable, and wildly ambitious. Many have described it as being like if David Lynch directed Cloud Atlas, with some comparing its past sections to Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence and Lynch's Mulholland Drive.

If Cloud Atlas was about how love reverberates through time, Bonello's sci-fi explores whether other more negative emotions - fear, dread, terror - also do.

Emotional, haunting, unsettling, thought-provoking, but also very funny in certain points, the 2024 movie is further elevated by two incredible lead performances from MacKay and Seydoux.

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