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Only the Animals (8/10) by Tony Medley 117 minutes. NR. This is a complex mystery told in a fascinating, convoluted way. Divided into five chapters, the story starts straightforward with a few characters and a missing woman. But it then backtracks and tells the stories from different points of view. It has
two main locations. The first is on the Causse plateau in Southern
France, occupied by isolated farmers who live solitary lives. The second
is 5,000 miles distant in an African abode of over 5 million residents,
Abidjan. It is peopled by what seem to be impoverished natives some of
whom make a living as scammers on the internet. The missing woman is Evelyne Ducat (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) who is apparently involved with Joseph. So that’s the setup. Directed by Dominik Moll from a script by Moll & Gilles Marchand, adapted from the novel Seules Les Bętes by Colin Niel, the rest of the film consists of several chapters that tell the story of how all these disparate characters become involved with one another and the cataclysmic unintended consequences. While it might take some patience to stay with the story as it jumps around, it is so well set up and brought together that it is well worth the sit. The only drawback apart from the length is that I thought it could be greatly improved by better music. But that’s a minor complaint. Even so, the acting is terrific. Menochet is convincing as the brutish husband who gets scammed and Guy Roger “Bibisse” N’Drin is authentic as Armand, the African scammer. Nadia Terezkiewicz expertly plays a young girl, Marion, totally infatuated with Evelyne who becomes pivotal to everything without understanding anything. The performances of Calamy, Bonnard, and Tedeschi are equally good in a movie that is an ingenious look at how things can have devastating unintended consequences in today’s world. In French and Nouchi.
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