Manager: Thomas Cailley
Distribution: Romain Duris, Paul Kircher and Adèle Exarchopoulos
Gender: Fancy
Year: 2023
Premiere: 10/20/23
★★★★
There are fantasy genre films that create their own world with their own iconography and rules. There are others that move in a realistic terrain and gradually condition or distort the real with strange elements. And then there are offers like ‘Animal Kingdom’ is an astonishing film with the believability and beauty with which it intersects the real and the supernatural, combining both things and making us believe for two hours that they never existed separately.. We rarely see offerings with production design and art direction like ‘Animal Kingdom’.
There aren’t many new genre films with the level of formal perfection of the new Thomas Cailley (“Les Combattants”); We understand this perfection both on a technical level and in relation to the director’s absolute, even obsessive, confidence in the style of the cinema. the ability to recreate the strangest images that invade us. This is one of the strong points of ‘Animal Kingdom’, which tells the story of the relationship between a father (Romain Duris) and his teenage son (Paul Kircher) in a world where humans have begun to evolve into different species of animals. The other is in times of dark and sinister tales, devotion to something fantastic, kind and bright to take up some of the themes that define today’s fantasy cinema, such as transformation and monstrosity, from another place.