Girls Behaving Badly: Love, Honour and Disobedience in Sophie Hyde's 'Animals'

This poignant dramedy about an inseparable pair of women offers viewers scenes of debauchery, drama and deep-and-meaningful conversations, before ultimately asking us to ponder the line between friendship and co-dependency. With its sizeable number of women both on and off screen, Animals is also a testament to the importance of female agency in cinematic stories and the creation of them, writes Aimee Knight.

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