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Movie Info

Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha lives with her mother in a small coastal town. She feels stuck in a life that holds no surprises, until one day she grows a tail.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

Russian
Director:

Ivan I. Tverdovskiy
Producer:

Guillaume de Seille, Natalya Mokritskaya, Mila Rozanova, Maria Lavnikovich, Ulyana Saveleva, Bénédicte Thomas
Writer:

Ivan I. Tverdovskiy
Release Date (Streaming):

Sep 28, 2017
Runtime:

1h 23m
Production Co:

New People Film Company, Arizona Films

Cast & Crew

Masha Tokareva
Katya

Natalya Pavlenkova
Natasha

Aleksandr Gorchilin
Stylist

Irina Chipizhenko
Mother

Aleksandr Nekhoroshikh
Surgeon

Dmitriy Groshev
Peter

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Critic Reviews for Zoology

All Critics (29) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (4)

You probably need to be Russian to be able to fully unpack the layers of satire and allegory in this defiantly oddball tale of personal growth. But the impact of the sheer weirdness of a story of a middle-aged zoo worker who grows a tail is universal.

October 1, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Wendy Ide
Observer (UK)
There are strains of Gogol and Kafka in this intriguing if flawed movie from Russian director Ivan I Tverdovskiy, shot in a restless handheld style, the camera roaming and panning across a dreary workaday world.

September 29, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
Zoology is a genuine oddity: bizarre, surprising and affecting. If it's meaning is muddled, Natasha Pavlenkova' s central turn makes the tale - and the tail - worthwhile.

September 29, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Ian Freer
Empire Magazine
Manages to tell the story of a woman growing a tail with sad and memorable conviction.

September 28, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Josh Howey
Little White Lies
If 'Teeth' and 'Raw' got your tail wagging, you'll lap this up.

September 28, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Anna Smith
Time Out
[An] intriguing Russian satire.

September 27, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Geoffrey Macnab
Independent (UK)
A little gem that is worth your time.

September 27, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4.0 | Full Review…

Richard Propes
TheIndependentCritic.com
A fascinating film on multiple levels.

September 1, 2020 | Full Review…

Vladan Petkovic
Cineuropa
While Zoology's genre flourishes are demurer than some of its initial responses may otherwise suggest, Tverdovsky proves to be an innovative and interesting new Russian talent with his sophomore film.

August 27, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Nicholas Bell
IONCINEMA.com
An intriguing premise becomes a meandering, unclear contemplation - with a fitting visual motif of walking - yet never receives much payoff.

February 22, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Rachel Brook
One Room With A View
Even when the film deals with the fetishization of the other, it's another way in which it's seriously engaging in social commentary.

February 15, 2019 | Full Review…

Michael McNeely
The Hindu Business Line
The film's magical realism is a dark satire of Russian contemporary life, sexuality, morality, health service and society, with an outstanding performance from Natalia Pavlenkova.

October 18, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Alexa Dalby
Dog and Wolf