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  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 21 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 21 m

Summary 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 i...

Directed By: Lucile Hadzihalilovic

Written By: Alante Kavaite, Geoff Cox, Lucile Hadzihalilovic

  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 21 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 21 m

Evolution

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
77
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 18 User Ratings
7.0
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Summary 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 i...

Directed By: Lucile Hadzihalilovic

Written By: Alante Kavaite, Geoff Cox, Lucile Hadzihalilovic

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
77
84% Positive
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16% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
77
84% Positive
16 Reviews
16% Mixed
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0% Negative
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100
Nov 25, 2016
The makers of Evolution may dazzle viewers with an intoxicating visual style, but they never lose sight of Nicolas' humanity. Do not miss this film.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW
83
Nov 25, 2016
This is the story of evolving consciousness that leads to the birth of skepticism — and, more specifically, a mistrusting of authorities that yields the desire to seek out a better world.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW

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7.0
72% Positive
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17% Mixed
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11% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 18 User Ratings
7.0
72% Positive
13 Ratings
17% Mixed
3 Ratings
11% Negative
2 Ratings

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10
Marcologie
Jan 12, 2023
Un film envoutant et déroutant. Il faut lâcher prise et se laisser porter dans un univers très personnel à la fois poétique, sensuel et oppressant. Une claque visuelle, la photo est superbe même dans les scènes plus cauchemardesques. Un chef d’œuvre assurément d'une réalisatrice qui produit malheureusement peu de films.
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zedzded
Nov 18, 2018
Yes this movie is a bit slow moving and maybe it doesn't tie up everything in a neat little self satisfied bow at the end but it's a fantastic movie. The cinematography is amazing and the mood created is subtle and intriguing; the art direction is wonderful. I highly recommend. Not for someone who needs big laughs and explosions and a tacked on love story. A bit cerebral but never lacking heart. Loved it.
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80
Nov 23, 2016
By the end of this most ominous lullaby, it’s clear that the film isn’t a puzzle meant to be solved—it’s an oblique return to childhood, to a time when there was no clear boundary between imagination and reality, when everything you didn’t understand was beautiful and terrifying in equal measure.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 18, 2015
With its linear narrative and clear sense of a protagonist, Evolution is both more beautiful (thanks to gorgeous widescreen cinematography, including stunning underwater and nighttime footage, from “The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears” d.p. Manu Dacosse) and accessible than “Innocence,” though the two films clearly function best as the twisted diptych that they are.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
78
Dec 7, 2016
The horror imagined by Évolution does not depend on the genre’s familiar tropes but instead its arousal of dread and fear, not unlike Guillermo del Toro in "The Devil’s Backbone," in which the peril is intuited rather than defined.
By Marjorie Baumgarten FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 18, 2015
With her sophomore effort, Evolution, the writer-director delivers another disturbing mélange of experimental genre filmmaking and adorable, tortured French kids, offering up a trippy visual feast that satisfies on an aesthetic level, if not always on a narrative one.
By Jordan Mintzer FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 13, 2016
The film interprets itself, offering an essay on rape and gender fluidity that locks us out of the cognitive process of digesting it.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
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Tuneison
Dec 21, 2017
This movie looks absolutely beautiful. I would love to have the skills of this movie's cinematographer. HOWEVER, there is literally nothing else to this movie that stands out as exceptional.
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iCronic
Aug 7, 2017
This film just leaves you hanging, I wanted more explanations. It's beautiful to look at but the movie doesn't use its full potential
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Production Company Les Films du Worso, Noodles Production, Volcano Films, Evo Films A.I.E., Scope Pictures, Left Field Ventures, Canal+, Ciné+, Indéfilms 3, Palatine Étoile 12, Cinéfeel Prod, Ex Nihilo, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge, Doce Entertainment
Release Date Nov 25, 2016
Duration 1 h 21 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline Grow to become something new.
Website http://www.uplink.co.jp/evolution/
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Awards

Golden Trailer Awards
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
BloodGuts UK Horror Awards
• 4 Nominations
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations

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