THE ANIMAL KINGDOM, by French filmmaker Thomas Cailley, closes its 52nd edition with actor Paul Kircher on October 14 at the Impérial.
In modern-day France, an unknown disease affects certain human beings, who are gradually transformed into animals. Considered savage, these mutants, who supposedly “terrorize” the population, are interned in centers or flee to the forest. François heads south, accompanied by his teenage son Émile: their wife and mother is affected by the strange syndrome, and they hope to find her…
An anti-speciesist and ecological fable about the acceptance of difference, THE ANIMAL KINGDOM relies first and foremost on a father-son relationship whose complicity is deeply moving. Romain Duris and Paul Kircher are magnificent in their duet on Pierre Bachelet’s Elle est d’ailleurs, a daring blend of genres that is both intimate and spectacular, while remaining true to its zeitgeist and entertaining.
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