Stars: John David Washington, Anthony Ramos, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Chanté Adams, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Nicole Beharie, Rob Morgan, Cara Buono, Grant Jaeger, Josiah Gabriel, Emilia Allen, Brian Pollock, Joe Tippett, J.W. Cortes, Giuseppe Ardizzone | Written and Directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green
Monsters and Men tells a ripple-effect narrative: from an eye-witness (Ramos) who captures a shooting on his phone, an African-American police officer (Washington) battling with his conscience to stand up against his fellow officers, to a local high school student (Harrison Jr) who transforms from passive bystander to vehement activist. With fluid cinematography that’s alert and expressive, the film explores the ramifications of such an event in a terrifying and poetic way.
Director Reinaldo Marcus Green’s Monsters and Men is a contextually subtle yet conceptually shrewd and powerful character piece. Detailing the haunting turmoil and fallout of traumatising moment of police brutality in three characters’ lives in...
Monsters and Men tells a ripple-effect narrative: from an eye-witness (Ramos) who captures a shooting on his phone, an African-American police officer (Washington) battling with his conscience to stand up against his fellow officers, to a local high school student (Harrison Jr) who transforms from passive bystander to vehement activist. With fluid cinematography that’s alert and expressive, the film explores the ramifications of such an event in a terrifying and poetic way.
Director Reinaldo Marcus Green’s Monsters and Men is a contextually subtle yet conceptually shrewd and powerful character piece. Detailing the haunting turmoil and fallout of traumatising moment of police brutality in three characters’ lives in...
- 1/22/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Words matter. This week, the United States President called a woman a “dog,” reducing her to something contemptible and sub-human. Meanwhile, in the country’s most fortunate art houses, meticulously scripted, micro-budgeted Sundance discovery “We the Animals” flips such language on its head, deploying the word “animals” not as an epithet, but a mark of uncommon empowerment as it celebrates the complicated identity of three biracial kids — brothers Manny, Joel, and Jonah — who may as well be a single alien organism: inseparable Siamese triplets fused at the hips, or some kind of rare 12-legged octopus.
Clumsy like puppies, giggly like hyenas, these three half-white, half-Puerto Rican boys seize the opportunity of Jeremiah Zagar’s stunning, semi-impressionistic film to define themselves, coming off as something more than human, not less, so much so that by the end, it seems entirely reasonable that one of these special children might sprout wings and fly away.
Clumsy like puppies, giggly like hyenas, these three half-white, half-Puerto Rican boys seize the opportunity of Jeremiah Zagar’s stunning, semi-impressionistic film to define themselves, coming off as something more than human, not less, so much so that by the end, it seems entirely reasonable that one of these special children might sprout wings and fly away.
- 8/17/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
The boys and their father are slumped in the back of a dying pickup truck. Minutes earlier, dad lost his job, in part because he brought the boys with him to his overnight security gig; the boss showed up, an altercation took place before the trio’s eyes, and now the truck is being towed. An eventful night, and as the father’s face makes clear, a rather devastating one. Losing the job is a crushing blow, one made all the more upsetting by happening in front of his children. He struggles to keep from crying as the boys look on, and the tow truck rumbles in the morning light. The youngest boy’s face responds to his father’s sadness, while the older two feed off of his anger. When dad slaps the side of the truck, all three follow suit. They bang and bang, the youngest shouting, “No more work!
- 8/14/2018
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
"Promise me you'll stay nine forever." The Orchard has debuted the first official trailer for an indie film titled We the Animals, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year, won the Next Innovator Award, and earned a whole bunch of acclaim and rave reviews from critics all over the world. The film sort of reminds me of Beasts of the Southern Wild, about a group of young kids who create their own worlds and live in poor conditions with their parents. The film stars Sheila Vand and Raúl Castillo as the parents, and the story focuses on one specific young boy named Jonah. He also has two other brothers, Manny and Joel, and the three of them are played by Evan Rosado, Josiah Gabriel, and Isaiah Kristian. This is an outstanding trailer for a really wonderful, special film about these kids and how they survive in tough times,...
- 6/29/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
‘We are focusing our resources on continuing to bring to market independent American films of the highest quality.’
The Exchange CEO Brian O’Shea announced on Thursday (March 22) the company has acquired international rights to Sundance hits We The Animals and Blaze and will launch sales in Cannes.
Jeremiah Zagar directed We The Animals, which Cinereach and Public Record produced and will screen at the Tribeca Film Festival next month following its world premiere in Park City in January, where it won the Next Innovator Award.
Raúl Castillo, Sheila Vand, Evan Rosado, Isaiah Kristian, and Josiah Gabriel star in the...
The Exchange CEO Brian O’Shea announced on Thursday (March 22) the company has acquired international rights to Sundance hits We The Animals and Blaze and will launch sales in Cannes.
Jeremiah Zagar directed We The Animals, which Cinereach and Public Record produced and will screen at the Tribeca Film Festival next month following its world premiere in Park City in January, where it won the Next Innovator Award.
Raúl Castillo, Sheila Vand, Evan Rosado, Isaiah Kristian, and Josiah Gabriel star in the...
- 3/22/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Cinereach financed Next selection and produced with Public Record.
The Orchard has acquired North American rights to We The Animals following its recent world premiere in Sundance where it won the Next Innovator Award.
The distributor plans a theatrical release this year on Jeremiah Zagar’s coming-of-age film about three boys growing up in rural New York.
Zagar and Dan Kitrosser adapted the script from Justin Torres’ debut novel for the same name. The cast of newcomers includes Evan Rosado, Isaiah Kristian and Josiah Gabriel, in addition to Raúl Castillo and Sheila Vand.
Cinereach financed the film and produced with Public Record.
“With We The Animals, Jeremiah has masterfully created a dream-like backdrop for a story of personal identity and family,” Paul Davidson, The Orchard’s executive vice-president for film and TV, said. “It is a captivating, magnetic film that deserves to be seen in theaters and we are proud to be a part of making that happen...
The Orchard has acquired North American rights to We The Animals following its recent world premiere in Sundance where it won the Next Innovator Award.
The distributor plans a theatrical release this year on Jeremiah Zagar’s coming-of-age film about three boys growing up in rural New York.
Zagar and Dan Kitrosser adapted the script from Justin Torres’ debut novel for the same name. The cast of newcomers includes Evan Rosado, Isaiah Kristian and Josiah Gabriel, in addition to Raúl Castillo and Sheila Vand.
Cinereach financed the film and produced with Public Record.
“With We The Animals, Jeremiah has masterfully created a dream-like backdrop for a story of personal identity and family,” Paul Davidson, The Orchard’s executive vice-president for film and TV, said. “It is a captivating, magnetic film that deserves to be seen in theaters and we are proud to be a part of making that happen...
- 1/31/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Orchard has acquired the North American rights to Jeremiah Zagar’s coming-of-age drama We the Animals.
Based on Justin Torres’ debut novel, the feature centers on three young boys in a rural New York hometown, in the midst of their young parents’ volatile love that makes and unmakes the family many times over. Dan Kitrosser adapted the novel with Zagar.
First-time actors Evan Rosado, Isaiah Kristian and Josiah Gabriel star, alongside Raul Castillo and Sheila Vand.
We the Animals was financed by Cinereach, which also produced the movie along with Public Record. Cinetic Media negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers.
This is the second deal for The...
Based on Justin Torres’ debut novel, the feature centers on three young boys in a rural New York hometown, in the midst of their young parents’ volatile love that makes and unmakes the family many times over. Dan Kitrosser adapted the novel with Zagar.
First-time actors Evan Rosado, Isaiah Kristian and Josiah Gabriel star, alongside Raul Castillo and Sheila Vand.
We the Animals was financed by Cinereach, which also produced the movie along with Public Record. Cinetic Media negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers.
This is the second deal for The...
- 1/31/2018
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The surface plot of “We the Animals” is as simple as they come, and it’s not the source of its lyrical power. Above all else, director Jeremiah Zagar portrays the experiences of an adolescent boy coming to terms with his dysfunctional family and his emerging sexuality as a swirling cyclone of nostalgia, brutal arguments, and bittersweet pontifications. As Jonah, newcomer Evan Rosado exudes the confusing emotions of a child growing into his otherness, apart from the family unit that surrounds him. Each moment contributes to his developing perceptions of the world — telling glances and a ruminative voiceover transforms the movie into a poetic variation on the coming-of-age formula less fixated on exposition than the haunting beauty of growing up.
Read More:The 2018 IndieWire Sundance Bible: Every Review, Interview, and News Item Posted During the Festival
Adapted by Zagar and Dan Kitrosser from Justin Torres’ semi-biographical debut novel, “We the Animals...
Read More:The 2018 IndieWire Sundance Bible: Every Review, Interview, and News Item Posted During the Festival
Adapted by Zagar and Dan Kitrosser from Justin Torres’ semi-biographical debut novel, “We the Animals...
- 1/22/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
A renowned documentary filmmaker known for his Oscar-shortlisted In a Dream, Jeremiah Zagar recently embarked on his first narrative feature with We the Animals, a “translation” of Justin Torres’ critically acclaimed debut novel. The film centers on three brothers—Manny (Isaiah Kristian), Joel (Josiah Gabriel) and Jonah (newcomer Evan Rosado)—who experience a volatile home life with warring parents (portrayed by Raúl Castillo and Sheila Vand). The youngest child, Jonah…...
- 1/20/2018
- Deadline
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