Director Sarah Arnold and actor Alexis Manenti talk about Too Many Beasts (L’Espèce explosive).
Presented at the 79th Cannes Film Festival in the Directors’ Fortnight section, the film will screen at BFI London on October 14 and 16.
In the French countryside, wild boars ravaging crops spark an open war between farmers and members of a gentlemen’s hunting club, who feed the game between hunts. Brun, a bankrupt farmer, struggles to keep his farm afloat. When the club’s president pushes him to his limits, Brun shoots him and disappears. A year later, Fulda, a volatile police officer just transferred to the region, leads the investigation. Still struggling after a recent breakup, and as wild boars proliferate across the region, he is pushed to the brink of sanity.
