Else

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Else

2024

1h 40m

Fantasy

Horror

Romance

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Anx has just met Cass when a mysterious virus breaks out: everywhere, people’s bodies are merging with objects. Stuck in their apartment, the couple must face this dreadful threat.

Phil Hoad

Guardian

Feb 24

4/5

Generally surrealistic and elliptical with dialogue, Else shows a heartening faith in the affective power of imagery over talk. A digital-age kindred spirit of the likes of Tetsuo: The Iron Man, this is the midnight movie real deal.

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Manuel Betancourt

Variety

10/10/2024

“Else” may try patience as it hopscotches from genre to genre before landing on a bleak meditation.

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Chase Hutchinson

TheWrap

09/27/2024

It takes us into a world that is far bigger than us and often beyond easy understanding, creating arresting visuals that implant themselves in your mind.

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Matt Glasby

Radio Times

Mar 4

3/5

Between the slower stretches and experimental eccentricities, it is, at times, genuinely nightmarish.

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Paul Mount

Starburst

Mar 3

3/5

It’s a haunting, effecting and entirely disorientating experience that offers a typically European and far less sensationalist depiction of a lethal virus than the rather more typically gung ho Hollywood studio efforts.

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Daniel Gorman

In Review Online

Aug 12

Else fully commits to its horrific premise, but Emin also has more on his mind than genre thrills... the endgame here is not annihilation but transformation. What that new-look future might be is left tantalizingly opaque.

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Fak E

@RT48583736 Jul 12

Started off very strong with an engaging premise, but it’s like they didn’t bother writing a third act. Comes across as obnoxious and pretentious and ultimately was a complete waste of time.

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Jennifer N

@RT95995089 Jul 10

Something really interesting from The 2024 Toronto Film Festival, this French and Belgian horror movie exemplifies everything that I love most about foreign films. Stunningly surreal visuals, with an original take on an apocalypse, pandemic movie, this is deeply philosophical film from Thibaul Emin, a director to watch, I think.

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prawnda s

@RT72497680 Jul 9

here's a simple rule for the director: if you want to be taken seriously, don't include AI artwork in your products. it's not just divisive but also financially shortsighted to use technology that is being boycotted by so much of the population. if nobody ends up watching or even liking your movie, maybe you can take a guess as to why

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Synopsis

Anx has just met Cass when a mysterious virus breaks out: everywhere, people’s bodies are merging with objects. Stuck in their apartment, the couple must face this dreadful threat.

Director: Thibault Emin
Producer: Damien Lagogué
Screenwriter: Thibault Emin, Alice Butaud, Emma Sandona, Thibault Emin, Alice Butaud, Emma Sandona
Distributor: Cineverse
Production Co: Wrong Men North, Les Produits Frais
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Original Language: French
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 8, 2025
Runtime: 1h 40m

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