Mutants

About Mutants

Mutants is a French science-fiction horror film based on a screenplay from Louis-Paul Desanges and David Morlet It was directed by French filmmaker David Morlet and stars Hélène de Fougerolles, Dida Diafat and Francis Renaud.

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Plot

A virus has transformed the vast majority of humanity into bloodthirsty, zombie creatures. Marco and Sonia are young couple fleeing the "mutants" and trying to fight their way to a military base. But when Marco himself becomes infected in an attack, the pregnant Sonia must fight the worst enemy – the man she loves.

Cast

Hélène de Fougerolles as Sonia

Francis Renaud as Marco

Dida Diafat as Virgile

Marie-Sohna Condé as Perez

Nicolas Briançon as Franck

Luz Mandon as Dany

Driss Ramdi as Abel

Grégory Givernaud as Paul

Justine Bruneau de la Salle as young girl

Jérémy Loth as mutant

Sébastien Rouquette as mutant

Frédéric Troussier as mutant

Cyril Hipaux as mutant

Nicolas Leprêtre as mutant

Cécile Corsalan as mutant

Emmanuel Lanzi as stuntman mutant

Frédéric Alhinho as stuntman mutant

Yves Girard as stuntman mutant

Patrick Vo as stuntman mutant

Marie Dang as stuntwoman mutant

Production

The film was shot in a bleak Picardy, scorched in snow and sluiced down in gray.

Release

Mutants premiered on 31 January 2009 as part of the Gérardmer Film Festival and participated in the Festival du Film Français au Japon on 13 March 2009. The United States distribution rights for the film were acquired by IFC Festival Direct and the company was due to release it on 10 February 2010 at Festival Direct on Demand. IFC Films set the US DVD and Blu-ray release for the 26 October 2010.

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Notable quotes

“Lola the six-clawed lobster has escaped the fate that would face most of her kind, thanks to her genetic mutation, and will be served up in an exhibit case at the Maine Maine State Aquarium rather than on a dinner table.”
— Alan Boyle, in "Six-clawed mutant lobster goes viral — and goes on display in Maine" in NBC News (10 September 2013)
“The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants.”
— Federico Fellini, in I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon (2003), "Younger Generation"
“Mutants and humans. They have long struggled to coexist. While some try to unite the world, others try to dominate it. Neither strategy has prevailed. But when conflicts reach an impasse, inevitably something happens to shift the balance forever.”
— Professor Charles Francis Xavier, in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) written by Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn
“It was things like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, he thought, that made you believe the world was maybe just as well off destroyed.”
— Stephen King, in The Stand (1990 edition), Ch. 61, p. 934
“The most common cause of pregnancy loss is a problem with the chromosomes that would make it impossible for the fetus to develop normally.”
— , Nemours Kids Health, (Date reviewed: October 2020)
“There was a world of mutants, men and women who were more than normal men and women, persons who had certain human talents and certain human understandings which the normal men and women of the world had never known, or having known, could not utilize in their entirety, unable to use intelligently all the mighty powers which lay dormant in their brains.”
— Clifford D. Simak, in Ring Around the Sun (1954)

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