‘Evolution’ Teaser: A Mysterious Film About A Strange Island
I’ve quietly heard some very good things aboutEvolution, the new film fromLucile Hadžihalilovic, but even if there hadn’t been whisperings of it being terrific I would be excited to see the new film from the director of 2004’sInnocence.
It’s a shame thatInnocencenever really gained traction in the US, and because of that Hadžihalilovic is probably better-known here for her creative partnership with and marriage to director Gaspar Noe, of films likeEnter the VoidandLove. She helped writeEnter the Void, but this new film will hopefully fan the flame of the directorial spark that we saw inInnocence.
This firstEvolutionteaser doesn’t show all that much, but I’ll take something over nothing. The film, by the way, is about “young boys who are subjected to mysterious treatments and live on an island inhabited solely by women and themselves,” which makes it sound like a companion piece toInnocence. Have a look at theEvolutionfootage below.
I know, and like I said, it’s not much. But the buildup to that final shot is pretty good, brief as this is. If only that shot wasn’t given away by the YouTube still. It has power regardless. And knowing what Hadžihalilovic did with youth and mystery inInnocence, which followed young women brought, not by choice, to a strange boarding school, I know she’s got a lock on this sort of story.
By the way, for those in Los Angeles, Cinefamily will host a screening of that prior filmInnocence,on September 16. It’s a strange, good, and really beautiful movie, and not one that is easy to see in the US at this point.
Evolutionwill play at TIFF and, fortunately, Fantastic Fest. We don’t have any info on a US release date at this point, but Alchemy bought the film for release in the States, so we should hear something pretty soon on that front.
