We recently listed Lucile Hadzihalilovic among the 100 Best And Most Exciting Directors Working Today. Ever since her latest feature film, “Evolution,” hit the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015, we haven’t stopped talking about it. It’s a truly original film, boasting terrific imagery and a distinct atmosphere, and we’re pleased to exclusively debut the new poster.
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Led by Max Brebant, the story follows a young boy who lives in a remote seaside village, which is only populated by other young boys and adult women. However, he soon comes to question everything around him after making an unsettling discovery. Here’s the official synopsis:
This eerily seductive mind-bender is a dark, dreamlike descent into the depths of the unknown. Ten-year-old Nicolas (Max Brebant) lives in a remote seaside village populated only by boys his age and adult women. But when he makes a disturbing discovery beneath the ocean waves — a dead boy with a red starfish on his stomach — Nicolas begins to question everything about his existence. What are the half-remembered images he recalls, as if from another life? If the woman he lives with is not his mother, then who is she? And what awaits the boys when they are all suddenly confined to a hospital? The long-awaited new film from the acclaimed director of Innocence is awash in the haunting, otherworldly images of a nightmare.
“Evolution” will open on November 25th at the IFC Center and Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York, at Cinefamily in Los Angeles, and on VOD.