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Bertrand Bonello on AI, Freaky Change and How His Next Project Will Be a Totally Different Beast: ‘Now I Have to Turn the Page and Be Somewhere Else’


'The Beast' director Bertrand Bonello on how cinema is changing, AI and his next project.

The French director Bertrand Bonello, whose science-fiction drama “ The Beast ” played in competition at Venice last year, is sitting in the sunshine in medieval Lucca, dressed in white and thinking of the future. He’s speaking to Variety about what he’s learned from the film, which screened this week at Lucca Comics and Games, how cinema is changing and artificial intelligence. In such a technologically regulated society, human emotions have become a threat, and to get rid of them, Gabrielle must purify her DNA by going back into her past lives.

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