Country: France
Year: 2023
Duration: 130'
In the near future, a mysterious phenomenon strikes humanity and unexplained mutations gradually transform parts of the population into human-animal hybrids. The creatures, considered a threat by m Calibri Bold any, are sent to specialised centre in an attempt to stop their mutations from progressing and to control their apparent violent tendencies.
Biography
film director
Thomas Cailley
(Clermont-Ferrand, France, 1980) studied at the Grande école Audencia in Nantes and then at the École Nationale Supérieure des Métiers de l'Image et du Son (La Fémis) in Paris, where he graduated in screenwriting. In 2011 he directed Paris Shanghai, a short film that won awards at numerous festivals. In 2014 he realized his firs feature film, Love at First Sight, presented and awarded at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes. It also received three Césars the following year, including Best First Film. In 2023 he directed his second feature, The Animal Kingdom, presented in the Official Selection at the opening night of Un Certain Regard at Cannes.
FILMOGRAFIA
Paris Shanghai (cm, 2011), Les Combattants (The Fighters – Addestramento di vita, 2014), Anomalie (videoclip, 2015), Ad Vitam (coregia/co-director Sébastien Mounier, serie tv, 2018), Le règne animal (2023).
Declaration
film director
“With the current ecological emergency, I believe it is vital to invent new narratives that explore our interactions with the rest of the living world. Not so much to rehash post-apocalyptic or end-of-the-world narratives that wind up repeating themselves, but to imagine new frontiers. The idea of human-animal mutation allows us to approach this question from a concrete, physical angle, in the bodies of the characters themselves. Not through the prism of inevitable collapse or another post-apocaliptic story but through the portrayal of a vital, violent and creative impulse.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Thomas Cailley. SCREENPLAY: Thomas Cailley, Pauline Munier. CINEMATOGRAPHY: David Cailley. EDITING: Lilian Corbeille. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Julia Lemaire. COSTUME DESIGN: Ariane Daurat. MUSIC: Andrea Laszlo De Simone. SOUND: Fabrice Osinski, Raphael Sohier, Matthieu Fichet, Nicolas Becker, Niels Barletta. CAST: Romain Duris, Paul Kircher, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Tom Mercier, Bille Blain, Xavier Aubert, Saadia Bentaïeb, Gabriel Caballero, Iliana Khelifa, Paul Muguruza. PRODUCER: Pierre Guyard. PRODUCTION: Nord-Ouest Films.
CONTACT: I Wonder Pictures distribution@iwonderpictures.it
