'Carnivores' trivia and fun facts
Cold and slow
The filmmakers chose rather cold frames, almost clinical, so that the syntax of the film would follow the psychological character of Mona. They also wanted to play with slow travellings that would accentuate the feeling of choking and increase tension.
Myth
At the beggining, Jérémie y Yannick Renier were planing on making a comedy, but soon enough they found Abel and cain, so as Eteocle and Polinice myths, to be their true source of insp¡ration.
Mysterious setting
Along with the decorator Laura Leonard, Jérémie and Yannick Renier made sure that the viewer never knows very well in which city or even in which country are they. "Sam and Mona had to evolve into a sort of urban 'no-man's land' before sinking into the forest at the end.This is, of course, part of the genre film codes but what we were mostly looking for was to make so that the fantasy gradually joins the territory of the myth", says Yannick.
Dialogue economy
One of the reasons that Jeremie and Yannick Renier wanted to create a thriller was because this kind of films allow a much more stronger dialogue economy than a comedy for example. The filmmakers wanted 'Carnivores' to represent the mental universe of Mona.