Species Sanguine Altered States © ARP Sélection Trésor Films Windy Production
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Margot is a young doctor beginning her career as an intern at a notoriously demanding French emergency room. The head of her department, Hélène, is a revered hard-ass who pushes her staff to their limits and expects the best in return. After a bumpy first day and a series of mysterious cases involving young people with bizarre symptoms, Margot wakes one morning to find her body and bedsheets covered in blood. Her symptoms appear to worsen with stress, and as the pressures of the job mount, strange lesions begin spreading across her torso.
Joining a new wave of French female filmmakers embracing body horror, Marion Le Corroller turns the anxieties of the modern workplace into something viscerally physical. With its gloriously gruesome skin-tearing effects, Species takes aim at a work culture that pushes young people to the breaking point in pursuit of success. Burnout becomes mutation and, in the grand tradition of Cronenberg’s New Flesh, the body rebels against what the mind has learned to endure.
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Margot is a young doctor beginning her career as an intern at a notoriously demanding French emergency room. The head of her department, Hélène, is a revered hard-ass who pushes her staff to their limits and expects the best in return. After a bumpy first day and a series of mysterious cases involving young people with bizarre symptoms, Margot wakes one morning to find her body and bedsheets covered in blood. Her symptoms appear to worsen with stress, and as the pressures of the job mount, strange lesions begin spreading across her torso.
Joining a new wave of French female filmmakers embracing body horror, Marion Le Corroller turns the anxieties of the modern workplace into something viscerally physical. With its gloriously gruesome skin-tearing effects, Species takes aim at a work culture that pushes young people to the breaking point in pursuit of success. Burnout becomes mutation and, in the grand tradition of Cronenberg’s New Flesh, the body rebels against what the mind has learned to endure.
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