La Bête

2044 - artificial intelligence has taken over and emotions are seen as a threat. In order to get a more interesting job, Gabrielle undergoes a procedure to cleanse her DNA of emotions linked to past experiences. In the course of the procedure, she recalls her previous lives - 1910, 2014, 2044. A melodrama with elegant costumes, set in 1910 in the Parisian salons of high society, as if penned by the novelist Marcel Proust. A cool thriller about urban loneliness in Los Angeles in the mid-2010s. And a melancholy science fiction film, about two decades removed from our present day. "La bête" is all of these - and great on all three narrative levels.