Olivia Colman Takes Her Turn After Lars von Trier and Wes Anderson’s Talking Foxes

While we are still waiting to learn when Wicker will hit cinemas in Italy, the film in which there is a romance with a wicker-built Alexander Skarsgård, we note another original project featuring the superb Olivia Colman, whom we will soon also see in the cast of the new miniseries based on Pride and Prejudice that debuts on Netflix on December 3.
In this new film, which bears a fairly self-evident title The Fox, Colman plays the role of a fox; or rather: she lends her voice to a talking fox that arrives after those in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist and in Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, and in this case the creature is also decidedly prone to profanity.
Directed by the Australian with unmistakably Italian roots Dario Russo, making his feature debut here, The Fox is an unusual comedy that, alongside live-action stars such as the leads Jai Courtney and Emily Browning, also features animated animal puppets: among them, Colman’s fox but also a magpie voiced by the late Sam Neill, who, in voicing this film, delivered his final performance before his passing.
The story follows Nick, a genial heir to a wealthy landowner, who discovers that his girlfriend is Kori. Rather than dumping her, Nick grieves and wrangles over how to resolve his situation, and a solution, as absurd as it might be, presents itself when one night he captures a fox that can talk and that offers him a swap: if Nick lets her live, she will help him save his relationship; all Nick has to do is push Kori into a magical hole that has the power to transform her into the perfect partner. Nick heeds the fox’s advice, and the Kori that re-emerges seems to be everything he has always desired; at least until strange behaviors begin to appear in the girl.
A plot that, in a way, seems reminiscent of Obsession, although there is no horror in The Fox. This is the trailer of the film.