This interview with Animal Kingdom director Thomas Cailley was originally published in conjunction with the movie’s U.S. theatrical release.

It has been updated and republished for the movie’s Hulu debut. In the French sci-fi film The Animal Kingdom , the world is changing and humans are changing with it. A mutation begins transforming humans into animal hybrids, creating a variety of bird-humans, insect-humans, mammal-humans, and many other new types of beings.

Caught in the middle of this upheaval are a divided family — the mother, in the middle of mutation, has gone missing from a medical transport, which leaves the father and son desperately searching for her. The fantastic movie is now available for digital rental, and streaming on Hulu, after originally screening at Cannes and other film festivals in 2023. The creature design in The Animal Kingdom is a perfect example of how practical and digital effects can work in harmony to augment each other, building an effect unachievable by either alone.

Director Thomas Cailley and his team used a blend of various practical effects (suits, makeup, animatronics) and digital effects to create some of the most evocative and original designs in years, like a scaly pangolin-human or a chameleon-human who can blend in with the environment. Related But at the heart of the movie is the moving relationship between father and son. Romain Duris (Aramis in France’s latest blockbuster adaptation of The Three Musketeers ) is incredibly.