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Unread 09-23-2015   #6
MindiFlyth
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Re: French horror film "Evolution": Male pregnancy and probably other changes

A little more info, from Buzzfeed:

Noodles like white worms in gray-green sludge, supposedly human flesh studded with suckers like an octopus, and a very unsettling ultrasound — even the seemingly innocuous opening shot of Evolution, of a boy swimming in the ocean, seen from below, is troubling. The prettiness of the image doesn’t detract from the fact that he looks spookily like an organism flailing on a microscope slide. Nicolas (Max Brebant) is in fact the subject of mysterious medical tests and treatments, along with every other kid on the remote island in which he lives — one entirely populated by grown women and the young boys for whom they care.

Evolution is only the second film from French director Lucile Hadzihalilovic, whose 2004 Innocence is also singular and haunting. And though this one lingers like a fable impossible to fully understand, it’s also gorgeous and disturbing as all hell — part strange adolescent metaphor, part body horror saga, the film builds unease through gradual reveals about life and the life cycle on the island. Rather than trying to parse all the details, it’s better to just let the imagery and all of the nightmare biology sink in.

How to see it: Evolution will be released in theaters in the U.S. by Alchemy.


This is one of those situations where as a fan of artsy indie pictures I'd like to see it without spoilers... but as a fan of transformation stuff I'd like to have a better idea what we're in for. I'm sort of hoping that somebody here will see it and post a mostly spoiler-free review to let us know if this is one for the transformation fans or if it's more of a dark, scary horror thing.

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