While the world was grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, French director Thomas Cailley was imagining another kind of coronavirus, one he’d cooked up before the crisis, but which suddenly took on …
,” a mysterious malady is sweeping France, unlocking something at a genetic level that causes people to transform into hybrid creatures. The mutations are slow and somewhat unpredictable: One person might sprout feathers, observing over weeks as their arms develop into wings, while another grows scales and winds up slithering like a snake.
Cailley, who captured France’s attention with “Love at First Fight,” builds on the potential shown in that debut, concentrating on the father-son dynamic between François and Émile more than the elaborate supernatural situation that surrounds them. “The Animal Kingdom” isn’t a traditional genre movie so much as a coming-of-age story with a creature-feature twist — picture a moody French “Teen Wolf,” minus the laughs.
Those common-enough body-horror tropes don’t feel quite as original as the movie’s other elements, although suspense — which Cailley maintains throughout — takes a back seat to psychology as the story unfolds. As Émile’s secrecy and fear of discovery become more acute, I was reminded of Julia Ducournau’s “Raw,” in which a young woman gradually discovers that she shares her parents’ cannibal appetites.
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