RARE BEASTS
Pitch-black comedy and Billie Piper’s directorial debut.
Premiering at Venice Critics’ Week, BFI London, and SXSW, Rare Beasts was released theatrically in 2021 to critical acclaim.
Mandy is a modern woman in a crisis. Raising a son in the midst of a female revolution, mining the pain of her parents separation and writing about a love that no longer exists, she falls upon a troubled man, Pete, who’s searching for a sense of worth, belonging and ‘restored’ male identity.
SYNOPSIS
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May 2021
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Cast: Billie Piper, Lily James, Toby Wolfe, Kerry Fox and David Thewlis
Director: Billie Piper
Producer: Vaughan Sivell
Executive Producers: Eloise Singer, Will Kane, Fanki Goodwin, Mike Rattenbury, Paul Higgins, Jim Reeve, Robert Halmi, Josh Varney, Ben Pugh and Billie Piper
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Rare Beasts premiered in competition at Venice Critics’ Week (2019), London Film Festival (2019) and SXSW (2020). It was longlisted for 2 BIFAS and BAFTA Outstanding Debut Film and was released theatrically to critical acclaim in May 2021.
“In her directorial debut, Piper announces herself as a truly thrilling film-maker with this bleakly brilliant inversion of the cutesy London love story”
—Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
