Animalia

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Animalia

Released Jun 7, 2024

1h 31m

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Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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Itto, a young woman from a modest rural background, is slowly adapting to the Moroccan privileged codes of her husband's family. But when supernatural events put the country in a state of emergency, Itto finds herself separated from her husband and new family. Alone, pregnant and looking for her way back, she finds emancipation.

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Ty Burr

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If you want sleight-of-hand cinematic atmosphere, a big movie made on a small budget, and a sense of the planet tipping on its axis toward destruction and rebirth, here's your vision of the end times.

Rated: 3/4

Jun 18, 2024

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

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Animalia is a quiet, thoughtful film with grand things on its mind that it tackles with impressive confidence, to great success.

Aug 15, 2023

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Drew Gregory

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With a strong central performance from Oumaïma Barid and remarkable cinematography, the experience of watching the film is arresting enough that its elusiveness becomes an asset rather than a hindrance.

Jan 31, 2023

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Daniel Allen

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Opaque in a way that will frustrate some, depicting an alien invasion that is spiritual rather than physical, Animalia is a somewhat alluring rumination on privilege and religion through a woman’s journey.

Rated: 3.5/5

Jul 25, 2024

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Perry Norton

Film Threat

Combines David Cronenberg's gritty philosophizing with David Lynch's surreal poetry.

Rated: 9/10

Jul 18, 2024

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

Pregnancy is often depicted as a state of enhanced vulnerability, and one which points the way to increased dependency. Here, Alaoui turns that around.

Rated: 4.5/5

Jun 17, 2024

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Marek J

One of the worst films I have ever seen. I refuse to believe the 100% fresh rating this film has is real. This film was paid for by the Doha (Qatar) Film Institute and I sincerely hope the people who posted the reviews praising this film to high heaven were at least paid for their trouble because they've burnt their credibility to the ground.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/23/25

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Patricia B

This movie made absolutely no sense. I don’t even know what happened. It was long and slow and the ending made no sense. AVOID IT!!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

11/10/24

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Kyrill G

This movie is incredible (for me it is at least) The story, the mystery, the acting. And the beautiful shot Moroccan Berber mountains, incredible. And let's not forget the music score, the amazing editing and directing. But most of all the dreamy/mystery segments are absolutely gorgeous and stunning and for me, worth 5 stars already. This is a movie I will not forget any time soon, one I consider seeing a second time in Cinema, a thing I can but rarely ever do.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/15/24

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Rakha Z

With interesting plot and unique characters, this movie quite interesting to watch

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

06/13/24

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Audience Member

It's just so so film, not special about anything

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

06/12/24

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Bud L

I mean it’s an interesting idea and executed well but it just kind of goes nowhere and leaves everything unexplained. Lots of surreal evocative imagery but it felt like they ran out of ideas and had to wrap it up. I wanted her to leave her husband for Fouad.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

06/01/24

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Itto, a young woman from a modest rural background, is slowly adapting to the Moroccan privileged codes of her husband's family. But when supernatural events put the country in a state of emergency, Itto finds herself separated from her husband and new family. Alone, pregnant and looking for her way back, she finds emancipation.

Director: Sofia Alaoui
Producer: Margaux Lorier, Toufik Ayadi, Christophe Barral
Screenwriter: Sofia Alaoui, Sofia Alaoui
Distributor: Dark Star Pictures
Production Co: Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Fonds Images de la Francophonie, Dounia Productions, Srab Films, Jiango Films, arte France Cinéma, Wrong Films, Centre Cinématographique Marocain
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: French
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 7, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 18, 2024
Runtime: 1h 31m
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1

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