In a world affected by a wave of mutation that slowly turns some humans into animals, François does everything possible to save his wife affected by this mysterious disease. While society is forced to adapt to a new order, François, along with his 16-year-old son Emile, will embark on a quest that will change them forever.
Starring Romain Duris, Paul Kircher (Silver Shell in San Sebastian 2022) and Adèle Exarchopoulos, the film combines the fantasy genre with family drama and is set in a near future plagued by a strange epidemic of progressive human-animal mutation. In addition to its conceptual risk, critics have also praised the stunning special effects used to depict the “creatures”, the design process of which lasted 18 months.
In the words of the director: “With the current ecological emergency, I believe it is important to invent new narratives that explore our interactions with the rest of the living world and imagine new frontiers. The idea of human-animal mutilation allows us to Allows to look at the question from a concrete physical angle, in the bodies of the characters themselves. Not through the prism of inevitable collapse or some other post-apocalyptic story but through the representation of a vital, violent and creative impulse. Me Today There was also an interest in making these mutations happen in the world.”
He also said “I am very interested in the emergence of imagination in our daily lives. This friction between reality and imagination is an invaluable source of empathy, change, turmoil, comedy. Change is here, everywhere, and “society must face it . ,
