An international trailer has arrived online for director Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Spain-shot, French-language horror film EVOLUTION. You won't get much information about the plot and characters from this trailer, but what you will get out of watching it is quite a fascinating audio/visual experience.
Scripted by Hadzihalilovic, along with Alanté Kavaïté and Geoff Cox, EVOLUTION tells the story of
Nicolas, a 10-year-old boy who lives with his mother in a village on a remote island inhabited solely by women and young boys. In a hospital overlooking the ocean, all the boys are subjected to a mysterious medical treatment. Only Nicolas questions what is happening around him. He senses that his mother is lying to him, and is determined to find out what she does with the other women at night, on the beach. What he discovers is the beginning of a nightmare into which he is helplessly drawn.
The film's North American distribution rights were acquired by Alchemy last summer, but were recently passed over to IFC Midnight.