{"id":5201,"date":"2026-07-30T14:11:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5201"},"modified":"2026-07-30T14:11:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:11:42","slug":"ferine-review-motherhood-begets-beastliness-in-andrea-corsinis-upscale-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5201","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ferine\u2019 Review: Motherhood Begets Beastliness in Andrea Corsini\u2019s Upscale Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tAn era of rising anxieties around pregnancy and motherhood has spurred a recent mini-explosion in horror films revolving around such topics, many decades after \u201cRosemary\u2019s Baby\u201d broke that particular ice. Andrea Corsini\u2019s debut feature \u201cFerine,\u201d which expands on his same-named 2019 short, manages to mingle a paranoiac, violent take on the same themes with a creature-transformation conceit a la \u201cCat People.\u201d Like Paul Schrader\u2019s 1982 version of the latter, this is an upscale genre piece whose pretensions towards Art are upfront, starting with a quotation from no less than Schopenhauer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5199\">Ryan Bingham Signs With WME (EXCLUSIVE)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe somewhat muddled tale of a wealthy foreigner in Italy, going feral from the pressures of maternity both lost and found, feels longer on rather lofty style than substance for some time. But the film, which recently premiered internationally at Fantasia, ultimately works up enough of a perverse froth to attract fans of screen fantasy in forms more sophisticatedly packaged than the pulpy norm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIrina aka Irene (Irish actor Carolyn Bracken, who played dual roles in Damian McCarthy\u2019s \u201cOddity\u201d) is an apparent artist and collector drawn back to an estranged mother\u2019s terrain by her funeral. She is, however, just exiting those fields, to the dismay of high-end gallerist Alfredo (Marco Gambino) and her erstwhile collaborator Till (Ilario Calvo). Having apparently suffered numerous prior miscarriages, she\u2019s now turned to surrogacy, planning to adopt the baby about to be born to an Italian local, Anita (Uliana Kuzmina). When the latter has a post-birth panic about surrendering her child, Irina simply absconds with it from the private hospital facility in the middle of the night, knowing the destitute young woman is unlikely to pursue any legal or other options.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tUnfortunately, a prologue has already alerted us to the fact that a wild animal being trafficked has escaped its cage and vehicle, fleeing into the same woods Irina\u2019s chauffeur now drives through. There is a collision, which adoptive mother and newborn survive \u2014 but the beast that caused the accident takes another victim. Afterward, Irina is understandably traumatized, refusing to explain what\u2019s happened to closest friend Rosa (Paola Lavini). She behaves ever more strangely, developing a predatory carnivorous streak, as if invaded by the spirit of the exotic cat that had consumed \u201cher\u201d child.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRosa suggests she compensate by taking in little Giulia (Elisabetta Caccamo), an angelic tot with a neglectful junkie mother (Elodie Gay). But this replacement adoption has strings attached, in the form of a father (Fabrizio Odetto) who\u2019d already been trying to get Giulia away from his dissolute ex, and is not about to hand her over to some rich third party. Irina\u2019s hunger and possessiveness both escalate, leading to the (offscreen) murders of anyone who gets in the way \u2014 of her parenting, or a meal. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5197\">George and Amal Clooney Evacuate French Home as Wildfire Threatens Brignoles: \u2018We Remain Fully Part of This Community\u2019 and Will \u2018Contribute to Its Rebuilding\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tMeanwhile, she is about to meet her match in the frostily authoritative older woman known as Dama (Caroline Goodall), whose illicit trade has generated great wealth\u2026 but recently hit a snag in the escaped rare South American jaguar now roaming the countryside. Seeking that four-legged creature, she too is willing to eliminate anyone who acquires too much knowledge on her path, and to potentially acquire the even rarer curiosity of a two-legged beast acting like a quadruped.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCorsini and Massimo Vavassori\u2019s script is needlessly cryptic at times, leaving the central figure too much of an abstraction. Are she and Rosa lovers? What exactly is Irina\u2019s relation to art \u2014 more painter or patron? This is yet another movie that aims rather clumsily for shock value by dwelling on consumption and meat, like many a grisly eating-disorder horror opus of late. But when we witness the bloody, fleshy, carcass-eviscerating gallery performance by a \u201ctransgressive artist\u201d Irina has previously been associated with, it\u2019s like an unintentional Eurotrash parody of things that were the cutting edge in modern art forty or fifty years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe suspense grows more effective past the one-hour mark, once Dama takes control of the narrative, with Irina, Rosa and Giulia variably helped and hindered by her steely mechanizations. There\u2019s no great surprise to where things ultimately head, but the last lap or so of a captivity sure to go wrong does work well enough as twisty psychodrama.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cFerine\u201d has an elegant veneer in Fabrizio La Palombara\u2019s widescreen cinematography, Pino Donaggio\u2019s characteristically lush orchestral score, and Carlotta Desmann\u2019s posh production design. The house Irina lives in, a striking Brutalist manse whose concrete sections rise to defy gravity, makes a significant aesthetic contribution in itself. The actors are all admirably committed (not least winsome newcomer Caccamo), though at times you might wish their skill was expended on material less heavy-handed in its metaphors and more nuanced in its character writing. In many respects, \u201cFerine\u201d is an impressive first feature, but it also suffers from a familiar flaw: You can tell the director thinks he\u2019s crafting a singular masterpiece, and that assumption shadows results that aren\u2019t brilliant or original enough to take themselves quite this seriously.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5195\">Italy-Based Lights On Snags Colombia\u2019s \u2018In All My Journeys I Am Returning\u2019 Ahead of Its Locarno Bow (EXCLUSIVE)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>\n<p>\t\t\u2018Ferine\u2019 Review: Motherhood Begets Beastliness in Andrea Corsini\u2019s Upscale Horror<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<h2>\n<p>\t\tReviewed online, July 23, 2026. In Fantasia Festival. Running time: 106 MIN.<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Production:<\/strong><br \/>\n(Italy) An EDI Effetti Digitali Italiani production with Filmaffair, OMDT in association with Adler Entertainment. (World sales: PiperPlay, Rome.) Producers: Giorgia Priolo, Francesco Grisi, Niccolo Ballarati, Gaia Bussolati, Stefano Leoni, Francesco Pepe. Executive producers: Brendan McCarthy, Laura Elizabeth Ruiz, Per Damgaard Hansen, Claudio Pintus.\u00a0\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>Crew:<\/strong><br \/>\nDirector: Andrea Corsini. Screenplay: Corsini, Massimo Vavassori, from a story by Corsini. Camera: Fabrizio La Palombara. Editor: Matteo Mossi. Music: Pino Donaggio.\u00a0\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n<strong>With:<\/strong><br \/>\nCarolyn Bracken, Caroline Goodall, Paola Lavini, Elisabetta Caccamo, Marco Gambino, Fabrizio Odetto, Uliana Kuzmina, Elodie Gay, Ilario Calvo. 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