When a young vegetarian undergoes a carnivorous hazing ritual at vet school, an unbidden taste for meat begins to grow in her. Raised as a rigorous vegetarian, freshman Justine is sent to the reputable Saint-Exupéry Veterinary school where the black sheep of the family, her big sister Alexia, is already studying. She will abruptly move into a mad new world of school traditions, vicious initiation tests and hard partying, utterly unprepared. During the long-established trial of raw offal-eating, Justine will be forced to swallow a chunk of rabbit kidney. Before long, repulsion will be replaced with an unprecedented, equally unquenched and palpable craving for raw meat, transforming Justine into a monstrous carnivore ...

Keywords

• Belgian cinema
• Best first feature
• Best of the decade
• Body Horror
• Bouli Lanners
• Cannes: La Semaine de la Critique
• Coming of Age
• Female Filmmakers
• Festival de Cannes
• Festival de Cannes - Tax Shelter
• Film Fest Gent !
• French Nightmares
• Halloween: scream different
• International Film Festival Rotterdam
• Les César du cinéma
• Les René du Cinéma (ex-Magritte)
• LuxFilmFest
• Just released
• Only on Sooner (to delate)
• Portraits of empowered women
• Psychological horror
• Red Carpet
• Teenage Years
• The Best Anti-Heroes
• The Sooner team’s favorites: Qi-Xian
• Thrill and Horror
• Tim Mielants’ favorite films

Actors

• Ella Rumpf
• Rabah Naït Oufella
• Laurent Lucas
• Garance Marillier
• Jean-Louis Sbille
• Bouli Lanners
• Joana Preiss
• Marion Vernoux

Director

• Julia Ducournau