Alchemy acquires French film Evolution
Directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic and filmed by renowned cinematographer Manu Dacosse (The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears), the film is co-written by Hadzihalilovic with Alanté Kavaïté and Geoff Cox. The horror film, which was recently selected to screen in the 2015 Toronto Film Festival and will screen in competition at the 2015 San Sebastián International Film Festival, stars Max Brebant, Roxane Duran, and Julie-Marie Parmentier. Evolution is director Hadzihalilovics highly-anticipated follow up to her cult classic movie Innocence in 2004.
“Lucile has made a distinctive and extraordinary film that is beautiful, unsettling, and ultimately as terrifying as anything Ive ever seen,” said Brooke Ford, Alchemy’s EVP of Marketing. “We cant wait to bring Evolution to audiences across North America following its esteemed premiere in Toronto.
In Evolution, Nicolas, a 10-year-old boy, lives with his mother in a village on a remote island inhabited solely by women and young boys. In a hospital overlooking the ocean, all the boys are subjected to a mysterious medical treatment. Only Nicolas questions what is happening around him. He senses that his mother is lying to him, and is determined to find out what she does with the other women at night, on the beach. What he discovers is the beginning of a nightmare into which he is helplessly drawn.
