ONLY THE ANIMALS
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BOOK-ENDED by sequences set in the Ivory Coast, Only The Animals is a chronologically fractured murder mystery adapted from the novel Seules Les Betes by Colin Niel set in a close-knit French countryside community.
Sexually fluid wife Evelyne (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) embarks on a passionate affair with waitress Marion (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) but is careless with her lover’s feelings.
When Evelyne vanishes,
suspicions are raised and one potential line of enquiry is social worker Alice (Laure Calamy), who is sleeping with farmer Joseph (Damien Bonnard) behind the back of her husband Michel (Denis Menochet).
The cuckolded spouse has his own dark secret involving an African scam artist named Armand (Guy Roger N’drin). As ties between the protagonists are revealed, so too is the truth about Evelyne’s fate.
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