The near future is the setting for the film which had the privilege of opening this year’s Un Certain Regard competition in Cannes. At first glance, it doesn’t appear all that different from our reality – so long as you overlook the mysterious phenomenon whereby part of the population mutates into human-animal hybrids. The creatures regarded as a threat are kept in isolation, away from “normal” people. These latter include the agreeably wacky François and his 16-year-old son Émile (the outstanding Romain Duris and Paul Kircher), who leave Paris and head for a small provincial town, where a centre has been set up for “the Others”… The spectacular and the intimate naturally coexist in an emotionally persuasive film that serves as an original contribution to the debate on human apathy towards the environment.
Karel Och
130 min / Color, DCP
Director Thomas Cailley
/ Screenplay Thomas Cailley, Pauline Munier
/ Dir. of Photography David Cailley
/ Music Andrea Laszlo De Simone
/ Sound Fabrice Osinski, Raphaël Sohier, Matthieu Fichet, Nicolas Becker, Niels Barletta
/ Editor Lilian Corbeille
/ Producer Pierre Guyard
/ Production Nord-Ouest Films
/ Coproduction Studiocanal, France 2 cinéma, Artémis Productions
/ Cast Romain Duris, Paul Kircher, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Tom Mercier
/ Sales Studiocanal
Thomas Cailley (1980, Clermont-Ferrand, France). Selected filmography: Love at First Fight (Les combattants, 2014), The Animal Kingdom (Le règne animal, 2023).
Studiocanal
50 rue Camille Desmoulins, 928 63, Issy les Moulineaux Cedex 9
France
Phone: +33 892 393 910
E-mail: [email protected]
Thomas Cailley
Film Director
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