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‘Species’ Review: There Will Definitely Be Blood In Marion Le Corroller’s Visceral But Imaginatively Fleshed Out Body Horror – Cannes Film Festival

Deadline·Damon Wise·18 days ago
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Blood is only the beginning in Marion Le Corroller ’s Species , which follows firmly in the trail pioneered by Julia DuCorneau but brings its own thoughts to the woman-in-a-man’s-world body-horror genre. Built around a fantastic scream-queen performance from Mara Taquin, who literally comes out of her shell in ways that will not be revealed here, Le Corroller’s film taps into the sinister sci-fi paranoia that feeds David Cronenberg ’s early movies and throws in a hefty dose of social satire that recalls Nicolas Ray’s Bigger Than Life . It begins with a dark but broadly comedic prologue set in a fast-food joint called Bloody Burger. Under pressure to keep things moving, the server has a fixed rictus grin for every customer, but the smile fades when he gets into a spat with an annoying TikTok influencer, who threatens to get him fired if he won’t give him his favorite Royal King burger.…

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