The Animal Kingdom

Date:: from 30 Nov 2023

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Age restrictions: 18+

Humans mutate into animals in a spectacular sci-fi drama about a mysterious epidemic.

Le Règne animal
2023, Thomas Cailley

France–Belgium
130 minutes, French with Russian subtitles

Starring: Romain Duris, Paul Kircher, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Tom Mercier

A strange virus is spreading across France: everyone who contracts it mutates into human-animal hybrids. Someone’s hands turn into wings, someone gets covered with scales ... Before the eyes of François and his 16-year-old son Emile, their wife and mother becomes a primate. A random accident—and all three find themselves in a forest filled with strange, outlandish creatures.

Shot from Le Règne animal, 2023

Cailley’s generous imagination is felt in the magical way he uses practical effects to render human-animal hybrids.

— Sophie Monks Kaufman, Little White Lies

The Animal Kingdom is not your typical sci-fi, but a clever, special effects-filled bildungsroman. Through a whimsical plot, it seeks to express some profound truths about the nature of the human soul.

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