Rare Beasts

Name: Rare Beasts
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: August 20, 2021
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 54
Cast: Alice Bailey Johnson, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Billie Piper, David Thewlis, Emily Taaffe

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Brainstorm Media | Release Date: August 20, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Alice Bailey Johnson, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Billie Piper, David Thewlis, Emily Taaffe, Hilary Agostini, Jolyon Coy, Jonjo O'Neill, Kerry Fox, Leo Bill, Lily James, Montserrat Lombard, Rosa Coduri, Toby Woolf, Trevor White

Summary: Mandy (Billie Piper) a nihilistic young writer and mother who, while navigating her dysfunctional family and misogynistic workplace, falls for Pete (Leo Bill), a charming traditionalist searching for "restored" male identity.

Director: Billie Piper

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 87 min

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Empire Terri White

May 17, 2021

Billie Piper’s ambitious, darkly funny directorial debut suggests the arrival of a new filmmaker with a vision, verve and a voice. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

May 20, 2021

Rare Beasts is a bold experiment in nerve-jangling confrontation: it has the structure and ingredients of romantic comedy but turns everything on its head. Read full review

Bobby LePire

May 20, 2021

Billie Piper’s first feature-length movie as screenwriter and director may have bitten off more than it could chew, but it is a daring debut that marches to the beat of its own drum. I respect it for that and enjoyed it more often than not. Read full review

Linda Barnard

Aug 16, 2021

An occasional brilliantly funny but exasperatingly chaotic, vignette-style examination of relationships, male rage, and female insecurities. Read full review

Kate Lloyd

May 24, 2021

It’s not a perfect movie. Sometimes it moves very slowly. Other times the acting is so big it becomes pantomime. But what Piper is incredible at (in both this and I Hate Suzie) is taking the raw, intense, angry energy, that builds when you’re forced to spend too much of your life tackling the toxicity of masculinity around you, and pouring it out like a long line of acid shots for viewers to chug. Read full review

Tim Grierson

Sep 14, 2019

To be sure, there are moments where the film’s studied quirkiness achieves something close to Piper’s objective, but the movie is so maddeningly uneven and brazenly combative that it’s hard to surrender to its ambition. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Monica Castillo

Aug 20, 2021

It’s a movie that’s confrontational and awkward from the start, distancing its viewer with an acerbic perspective and characters that trade more thorny verbal jabs and slaps than anything resembling warm affection. Read full review

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