Les Animaux Anonymes

There is no story. It's just a series of random clips put together, but the camera work was very pleasant.

I understand the message they want to send with this movie, but my nan could've done better and she's dead.

Some intoxication from certain substances would probably blunt the pain of realising that you spent money to watch this.

Anyone who has seen THE FARM, back in 2018, will think that this one is inspired from it. But beware, the story itself is not the same, only some so unusual elements makes you think about this link. The main matter is that those two quite different stories create some kind of analysis of the human - animal link (See title above). This one is without dialogues, it's not the first one, but it is still efficient. The cast is not great, though, look at the faces of the captives, when they arrive at the farm, they don't look scared at all, they seem to arrive at a museum for a visit, or for a new apartment to rent with the real estate agent.... Even after, they dont look so scared. Not enough, at least for my point of view. It is a flaw that could have easily been avoided. The overall scheme - human captive of a maniac - has already been told thousands of times since the late sixties and the Herschell Gordon Lewis' films, but that doesn't remove anything from this one, very inventive, and so typical of a French horror film as I crave for. One more thing, there is no blood in this movie, not gory sequence; and what for after all?

Seriously, great cinematography and mind blistering shock value. For the most part... It's simply a played out narrative and it's an exhaustive piece of dribble. The last 10 minutes of the spectacle was grand, but it simply does not make up for the lack of depth and weight. The movie was an empty shell with no true direction. It starts and ends nowhere and of nothing.

I know they were not going for subtlety here, but at the very least they could have tried to give me a character to connect to.

Instead the movie just seems to show an event of hunting and butchering animals, but with the roles reversed. The humans act like animals (mostly cowering and breathing heavy), and the animals like humans. In my opinion it would have been more potent to have the humans still behaving human, which would then make us think "Hey, maybe animals are more like us than we think." but nah, just reinforces what I already thought about animals.

Anyway, not a poorly made movie, i liked the camera work. Just not my style of storytelling i suppose.

A delightful and humorous perspective. While it may not stop us from eating meat, it certainly makes you think twice when you see a truckload of humans being rounded up like cattle and sent to the slaughter.