He joins Jacinta Parsons to chat about
Only The Animals. Here is his review.
Only the Animals begins with what sounds like somebody screaming, before the film fades into the opening shot of a man cycling through the streets of an African city with a goat draped over his shoulders. This playful initial misdirection – it is the goat making the noise that sounds like a human scream – sets up the audience for a film where often nothing is what it first seems. Despite opening in Africa, the action quickly shifts to a rural community in France where a woman has gone missing. Segmented into four parts to tell the story of various characters who in some way are directly or indirectly involved in the woman’s disappearance, writer/director Dominik Moll crafts an intriguing film that ultimately leans more towards allegory rather than a conventional mystery.