"Animals" is a stark, brilliant, uncompromising, beautifully acted piece of work.
Overview
After witnessing a violent incident, Javier meets the victim, Laura, who has a tortuous relationship with her boyfriend, Martín.
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The couple's doomed romance feels familiar from numerous other films about addiction, and the movie is downright bad whenever it aspires to visual poetry.
It's gritty and grim, but "Animals" is also a gripping portrait of young junkies in love.
The trajectory of "Animals" is obvious in the opening minutes of this numbing if well-acted junkie drama.
Mr. Schiffli shoots in a fluid style, tweaking colors and focus to register changes in perception and feeling.
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