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French Director Emma Benestan Debuts Her Feminist Camargue Bull-Running Thriller ‘Animale’ In Cannes’ Critics’ Week — Ones To Watch
French director Emma Benestan debuts her feminist Camargue-set bull-running thriller in Cannes’ Critics' Week starring Oulaya Amamra — Ones To Watch.
Benestan — who would later take a full-blown editor credit on his 2017 feature Mektoub, My Love — was then finishing her studies at France’s prestigious La Fémis film school, but observing Kechiche’s directorial style, and witnessing his penchant for mixing professional and amateur actors, was an education in itself. Set against the bull-fighting scene of the Camargue region in southern France, Animale stars Divines breakout Oulaya Amamra as Nejma, a 22-year-old woman who is trying to make her way in the male-dominated world of bullfighting. My adolescence is bathed in it.” Accompanying her for this adventure was Ruben Impens, cinematographer on Titane and Ducornau’s previous film, Raw(“I think he, too, was fascinated by this magical world”).
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