You have a few days left to watch the most daring French film of recent years in streaming

2024-10-01 14:51:11

Crowned with several Césars, this original and passionate French film will leave the streaming platform where we can discover it.

French films sometimes get a bad rap among moviegoers, and often wrongly so. Because French cinema is fortunately not limited to its student comedies, as often can be a very unfair composition. Every year, many films that push the boundaries of genres surprise viewers.

Just last year, the trial film Anatomy of a fall has laid out a royal road to Hollywood, drama I will always see your face move critics and audiences, horror film Bacteria find a small type useful in our regions, when Vincent must die or even Yannick each different from themselves. But there is one film that has been universally praised for its originality and audacity in 2023.

And for good reason: Animal kingdom has adopted a genre that is rare in French cinema, that of the fantasy film. Directed by Thomas Cailley, this feature film tells how a father and his son try to survive by all means in a hostile world, where people are turned into animals.

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While the infected are interned in special hospitals, the protagonist takes all the risks to save his wife, who is affected himself. In the cast, Romain Duris plays Adèle Exarchopoulos, while Paul Kircher plays one of the leading roles. When it hits theaters on October 4, 2023, Animal kingdom create surprise.

Télérama hailed it as a “stunning effort”, while Libération believed the film “opened a new path for French cinema”. For Première, it was even an “amazing masterpiece”. According to Allociné, it is even one of the best films of the year by click on its site, with an average of 4.4 / 5.

Even at the box office, Animal kingdom found its audience, more than one million entries during the sixth week of operation. In total, the production will win five Césars in 2024: Best Costumes, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, Best Original Music and Best Photography.

Animal kingdom enjoy the good life while performing and, for several months, appearing in streaming on the MyCanal subscription platform for latecomers. If you haven’t seen it yet, don’t wait if you subscribe to the encryption channel, because it’s on the platform until October 9.