2. Animals
Here it is! My favorite film from this entire festival Sophie Hyde’s Animals based on Emma Jane Unsworth’s book of the same name. It tells the story of two friends Laura and Tyler (played wonderfully by Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat) living in Dublin and trying to have an amazing time. As they inch closer to thirty, Laura starts to realize that perhaps her life never began as it should’ve. This is a wonderfully charming and devilishly hilarious spin on a tale that’s been told before – but never like this. Alia Shawkat is a marvel here and steals every scene she’s in. This one deserves all the attention when it drops.
