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Holliday Grainger

Alia Shawkat

Fra Fee

Dermot Murphy

Amy Molloy

Pat Shortt

Olwen Fouéré

Kwaku Fortune

Elva Trill

Anthony Morris

Jamael Westman

Muiris Crowley

Tara Egan Langley

Ryan Lincoln

Charlie Maher

Zeff Lawless

Emma Bortignon

Tom Harberd

Anna Harrison

Deborah Davis

Adrian Medhurst

Stephen Fuller

Niamh Buckley

Johanna Karppinen

John Wallace

Julien Benoiton

Dean Murray

JJ Sullivan

Simon Murphy

Duncan Campbell

Angeli Macfarlane

Tracy Phillpot

David O'Mara

Bernard Walsh

Pete Smith

Elene Pepper

Patricia Dennehy

Matthew Cormack

Darragh Scott

Chloe Bourke

Fenella Ross

Elliot Ross

Bryan Mason

Christine Dilworth

Gosia Zur

J.B. Williams

Saileóg O'Halloran

Simon Walbrook

Roman Bugovskiy

Ida Eriksson

Sophie Hyde

Shaheen Baig

Rebecca Summerton

Emma Jane Unsworth

Renate Henschke

Cormac Fox

Sarah Brocklehurst

Jed Palmer

Kate Dean

Louise Mathews

Zoë Barry

Emily Tebbitt

SWITCH.

‘Animals’ would have been better served had it had the guts to go as dark as the source material, instead of teetering on the edge. Gritty but not too gritty, the film fails to decide which relationship is its focus, yet it still manages to engage you enough not to truely care while voyeuristically observing this modern right of passage of identity, resilience and the hard choices we have to make.
- Jess Fenton

Read Jess' full article...
https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-animals-hedonistic-female-friendship-and-the-art-of-growing-up

Head to https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/sff for more Sydney Film Festival reviews.

CinemaSerf

This starts off quite strongly with the dynamic between "Laura" (Holliday Grainger) and "Tyler" (Alia Shawkat) tight and nippy - if largely hedonistic and alcohol fuelled. Once a love interest develops between the pair though, and the latter's sister "Jean" (Amy Molloy) deliberately gets pregnant, the body clocks start ticking and the pace of the film slows to that of a glacier as the sharpness of the first 20 minutes or so takes to it's heels. What that leaves us with is a sort of dull observational documentary on some thoughtless and selfish Dublin pseudo-intellectuals and by the conclusion I just didn't care.

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