Based on the 2021 English National Ballet stage production and choreographed by Akram Khan, the film unfolds the story of Creature, who has been unknowingly enlisted by a military brigade into a bold new experimental programme. He meets and falls in love with Marie, a cleaner who shows him kindness and compassion. Together they dream of escaping. Drawing on Georg Büchner’s expressionist classic Woyzeck, as well as elements of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Creature contemplates themes of alienation, impossible love and the desire to belong.
Creature
Asif Kapadia
2022
United Kingdom
88’
