Remember learning in school about humans’ transition from a hunting and gathering society to farming? Well, it’s farmers versus hunters in the dark comedy-drama Too Many Beasts  ( L’Espèce Explosive ), the first feature from director Sarah Arnold, which she wrote with Jérémie Dubois, Olivier Seror, Romain Winkler and Mehdi Ben Attia. Premiering in the Directors’ Fortnight (Quinzaine des Cinéastes) lineup, the sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival , the movie stars Alexis Manenti ( Les Misérables , Les Indesirables ) as the sharp-minded but heartbroken Fulda, Ella Rumpf  ( Couture , Grave , Freud , Succession ) as Stéphane, a psychologist with her own issues, and Vincent Dedienne ( A Good Man ). What is the nature of this beast, you ask? “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,” reads a synopsis. “Brun, a bankrupt farmer, struggles to keep his farm afloat.…