L'ESPÈCE EXPLOSIVE

In the French countryside, wild boars ravaging crops spark an open war between farmers and members of a gentlemen’s hunting club, who feed the game between hunts. Brun, a bankrupt farmer, struggles to keep his farm afloat. When the club’s president pushes him to his limits, Brun shoots him and disappears. A year later, Fulda, a volatile police officer just transferred to the region, leads the investigation, together with the psychologist Stéphane. Still struggling after a recent breakup, and as wild boars proliferate across the region, he is pushed to the brink of sanity

“The wild boar is the animal that sets the tone for the film. At once unsettling and ridiculous, joyful and unruly, I saw it as an embodiment of our impulses and a symbol of freedom. It represents desire, the rebellious defiance of those who resist, everything that escapes us and that we fail to contain. What I wish for us, as human beings, is to be uncontrollable. If the film can be described as punk, it is perhaps because it invites us not to conform to the norm, to defend our own imperfect way of being, and to remind us that we have a duty to disobey in order to defend our plurality.”