Why have giant wild boars suddenly begun roaming in packs through a rural village in the Ardennes? And where exactly has the bankrupt farmer Brun vanished to after murdering a local dignitary? The unlikely duo tasked with solving these bizarre mysteries are Fulda, a Corsican police officer suffering from depression, and Stephane, a psychologist on the verge of a nervous breakdown. As tensions escalate between farmers and wealthy landowners, their joint investigation spirals increasingly out of control, leaving chaos wherever they go. But the truth they eventually confront is beyond anything they could have imagined. With its bizarre, eccentric characters and inventive portrait of the French countryside, Sarah Arnold’s Too Many Beasts recalls the absurdist humor of Alain Guiraudie and the Coen brothers. At once a social film rooted in the realities of rural life, a wildly careening comedy of madness, and a gripping investigative drama that keeps the tension high, Too Many Beasts is one of the most delightful and wildly inventive feature debuts of the year. (SEO Seunghee)