The Animal Kingdom movie storyline. François (Romain Duris and his ever-daddycool look) and his son Emile (Paul Kircher, whom we saw last year in Honoré), with the help of Julia (Adèle Exarchopoulos, who certainly confirms the great funny of her offbeat performance), set out to find the mother of the family, who is in the middle of a metamorphosis. they come out.
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A convoy crash scatters the ‘critters’ into the wilderness, and they are sent to a special center in the Landes region – it has never been more like the Louisiana swamp, at once mystical and enveloping, especially when the soldiers arrive, as terrifying as the government men in E.T.’s house.
A true genre film of a kind that French cinema has rarely produced, Le Règle Animal stands out not only for its humor and strangeness, but also for its grisly, teeth-gnashing scenes that show the physical transformation of these ‘monsters’. The film is also a tender film of teenage apprenticeship, like a monster healing its past wounds (the gradual disappearance of the mother) and looking to the future.
In the age of first love and the irrepressible desire for freedom, Thomas Cailley doubles the discourse according to the rhythm of the bodily changes of these half-human, half-monsters who retain their human dimensions while gradually acquiring animalistic features. You have to wait for what seems like a year to find out if you will be eaten by a crocodile or a gorilla, a snake or an owl.
The Animal Kingdom (French: Le Règne Animal) is a 2023 science fiction adventure film directed by Thomas Cailley and written by Cailley and Pauline Munier. The film was selected to be screened as the opening film of the Un Certain Regard section of the 76th Cannes Film Festival, where it had its world premiere on May 17, 2023. The film was theatrically released in France by StudioCanal on October 4, 2023. It was also invited at the 28th Busan International Film Festival in ‘Open Cinema’ section and screened in October 4, 2023.
Le Règne animal is the second feature film by French director Thomas Cailley, after releasing his award-winning debut feature Love at First Fight in 2014. He co-wrote the screenplay with Pauline Munier based on an original idea by Pauline Munier. It is set in the Gironde department, where the filmmaker grew up and where his first film was staged (Landes de Gascogne). The screenplay was written before the COVID-19 pandemic.
As with Love at First Fight, Pierre Guyard of Nord-Ouest Films served as the film’s producer, while his brother David served as director of photography and Lilian Corbeille handled editing. The principal roles were performed by Romain Duris, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Paul Kircher. Duris indicated that he would play one of the surviving beings. He praised the script, but said the film would feature a lot of special effects, which would not make it easy for an actor.
Shooting began in May 2022 and took place entirely in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, largely divided between Landes, Dordogne and Gironde. The filming began in the commune of Fleix and moved across the banks of the river Lot in Lot-et-Garonne, particularly in the communes of Le Temple-sur-Lot and Castelmoron-sur-Lot. Production costs have been estimated between 13 and 15 million euros. In total, filming was to last 57 days, until mid-August. The project received financial support from the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC), a government agency responsible for promoting cinema.
The Animal Kingdom (2023)
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Directed by: Thomas Cailley
Starring: Romain Duris, Paul Kircher, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Tom Mercier, Billie Blain, Nathalie Richard, Maëlle Benkimoun, Saadia Bentaïeb, Gabriel Caballero, Iliana Khelifa, Florence Deretz
Screenplay by: Thomas Cailley, Pauline Munier
Production Design by: Julia Lemaire
Cinematography by: David Cailley
Film Editing by: Lilian Corbeille
Costume Design by: Ariane Daurat
Art Direction by: Vincent Amiel, Jules Barbier
Music by: Andrea Laszlo De Simone
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: StudioCanal
Release Date: May 17, 2023 (Cannes), October 4, 2023 (France)
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