When François Marindaze (Romain Duris) moves his son Émile (Paul Kircher) to the South of France in The Animal Kingdom, he inadvertently sets them on a path that changes their lives forever. The movie takes place in a timeline where a genetic mutation causes humans to spontaneously transform into different types of animals, or critters, as the human-only advocates call them. The Animal Kingdom is the second feature by director Thomas Cailley, and leaves us questioning how much Cailley himself would like to shed the conventions of human society and join the animals in the forest.
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