Only The Animals (Seules les bêtes) Cohen Media Group Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Dominik Moll Writer: Dominik Moll, Gilles Marchand. Adapted from Colin Niel’s novel ‘Seules les bêtes’ Cast: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Denis Ménochet Laure Calamy, Damien Bonnard, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Guy Roger “Bibisse” N’drin Screened at: […]
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- 11/17/2021
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Catfish People: Moll Returns to the Ripple Effects of Identity Issues
In the early 2000s, German born Dominik Moll was a fast-rising director of contemporary French cinema thanks to the success of his sophomore film, the well-received thriller With a Friend Like Harry… (2000), followed by the enigmatic Lemming (2005). Diverging into literary adaptation with 2011’s The Monk and then light comedy in 2016’s News from Planet Mars, Moll reunites with scribe Gilles Marchand for another identity-razing thriller, Only the Animals (Seules les bêtes), adapted from a novel by Colin Niel. If Simenon had lived into the technological age, his narratives might have turned to similar dramatic catalysts as employed here in this disconsolate thriller masquerading as a melodrama, clicking together its pieces to a puzzle neatly, efficiently, and with more than its fair share of human developmental dysfunction to define it.…...
In the early 2000s, German born Dominik Moll was a fast-rising director of contemporary French cinema thanks to the success of his sophomore film, the well-received thriller With a Friend Like Harry… (2000), followed by the enigmatic Lemming (2005). Diverging into literary adaptation with 2011’s The Monk and then light comedy in 2016’s News from Planet Mars, Moll reunites with scribe Gilles Marchand for another identity-razing thriller, Only the Animals (Seules les bêtes), adapted from a novel by Colin Niel. If Simenon had lived into the technological age, his narratives might have turned to similar dramatic catalysts as employed here in this disconsolate thriller masquerading as a melodrama, clicking together its pieces to a puzzle neatly, efficiently, and with more than its fair share of human developmental dysfunction to define it.…...
- 10/27/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Dominik Moll’s thriller charts an unhappily married woman’s terrifying fate and her mysterious connections to five other people
Twenty years ago, director Dominik Moll made a splash at Cannes with his black-comic psychological shocker Harry, Un Ami Qui Vous Veut Du Bien, starring the incomparably disturbing Sergi López – a film with the kind of delicious cruelty and sophistication that somehow only the French can produce. Its title over here was inelegantly rendered as Harry, He’s Here to Help, although I made a doomed attempt to popularise my own version: Harry Wants to Be Your Friend. After that, Moll had a number of credits, but nothing to live up to that picture, which promised us a film-maker with the style of Claude Chabrol.
But now Moll has given us this audacious, witty and absorbing mystery thriller, a tale of adultery and amour fou with a gamey touch of...
Twenty years ago, director Dominik Moll made a splash at Cannes with his black-comic psychological shocker Harry, Un Ami Qui Vous Veut Du Bien, starring the incomparably disturbing Sergi López – a film with the kind of delicious cruelty and sophistication that somehow only the French can produce. Its title over here was inelegantly rendered as Harry, He’s Here to Help, although I made a doomed attempt to popularise my own version: Harry Wants to Be Your Friend. After that, Moll had a number of credits, but nothing to live up to that picture, which promised us a film-maker with the style of Claude Chabrol.
But now Moll has given us this audacious, witty and absorbing mystery thriller, a tale of adultery and amour fou with a gamey touch of...
- 5/28/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
“Maybe it’s age, but I am less and less interested in prizes and competition.”
After twice securing competition slots in Cannes for his earlier films, Dominik Moll unveiled his new film Only The Animals this week in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori (previously known as Venice Days). If he felt being in a parallel section was a comedown, the German-born French director wasn’t showing it.
“Maybe it’s age, but I am getting less interested in prizes and competition. The main competition probably gets more media attention but I think it’s still a great chance to show the film here.
After twice securing competition slots in Cannes for his earlier films, Dominik Moll unveiled his new film Only The Animals this week in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori (previously known as Venice Days). If he felt being in a parallel section was a comedown, the German-born French director wasn’t showing it.
“Maybe it’s age, but I am getting less interested in prizes and competition. The main competition probably gets more media attention but I think it’s still a great chance to show the film here.
- 8/30/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
“Maybe it’s age, but I am less and less interested in prizes and competition.”
After twice securing competition slots in Cannes for his earlier films, Dominik Moll unveiled his new film Only The Animals this week in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori (previously known as Venice Days). If he felt being in a parallel section was a comedown, the German-born French director wasn’t showing it.
“Maybe it’s age, but I am less and less interested in prizes and competition. Of course, the main competition gets more media attention and blah blah blah but I think it’s...
After twice securing competition slots in Cannes for his earlier films, Dominik Moll unveiled his new film Only The Animals this week in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori (previously known as Venice Days). If he felt being in a parallel section was a comedown, the German-born French director wasn’t showing it.
“Maybe it’s age, but I am less and less interested in prizes and competition. Of course, the main competition gets more media attention and blah blah blah but I think it’s...
- 8/30/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
French New Wave director and noted aficionado of non-linear storytelling Jean-Luc Godard was famously quoted as saying, “I agree that a film should have a beginning, a middle and an end but not necessarily in that order.” The sheer number of good nonlinear films, where the events of the story are not shown in chronological order, has confirmed the validity of that notion. But the conceit needs to serve some purpose: advance a theme (2004’s “Crash”), add layers of mystery (“Memento”) or, admittedly on occasion, just be damn cool (“Pulp Fiction”).
In director Dominik Moll’s engrossing nonlinear thriller “Only the Animals,” the story jumps back and forth for all three of the above reasons. On its snowy surface, the movie is about five people who knowingly or unknowing play a role in the death of a woman in southern France. The film, which opened the Venice Days section of the 2019 Venice film festival,...
In director Dominik Moll’s engrossing nonlinear thriller “Only the Animals,” the story jumps back and forth for all three of the above reasons. On its snowy surface, the movie is about five people who knowingly or unknowing play a role in the death of a woman in southern France. The film, which opened the Venice Days section of the 2019 Venice film festival,...
- 8/29/2019
- by Mark Keizer
- Variety Film + TV
Human foibles are the true culprits in Only the Animals (Seules les bêtes), a new thriller from French writer-director Dominik Moll (With a Friend Like Harry…) that opened up this year's Venice Days sidebar. Spreading a murder mystery across two continents and chopping it up into a Rashomon-style narrative, the film can be a bit low on suspense in places but remains intriguing enough to keep you guessing till the last twist. Art houses looking for upscale genre fare could give this well-structured whodunit a look.
Adapting Colin Niel’s novel with his regular co-writer Gilles Marchand, Moll ...
Adapting Colin Niel’s novel with his regular co-writer Gilles Marchand, Moll ...
- 8/28/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Human foibles are the true culprits in Only the Animals (Seules les bêtes), a new thriller from French writer-director Dominik Moll (With a Friend Like Harry…) that opened up this year's Venice Days sidebar. Spreading a murder mystery across two continents and chopping it up into a Rashomon-style narrative, the film can be a bit low on suspense in places but remains intriguing enough to keep you guessing till the last twist. Art houses looking for upscale genre fare could give this well-structured whodunit a look.
Adapting Colin Niel’s novel with his regular co-writer Gilles Marchand, Moll ...
Adapting Colin Niel’s novel with his regular co-writer Gilles Marchand, Moll ...
- 8/28/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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