Rare Beasts to Premiere at Venice Film Festival

Billie Piper’s first film as Director to Premiere at Venice Film Festival

Piper stars in Rare Beasts, an ‘anti-romcom’ about a single mother described by a festival delegate as ‘a completely unhinged comedy’

Rare Beasts, the directorial debut of actor and musician Billie Piper, will receive its world premiere at the Venice film festival. She also wrote and stars in the film.

Rare Beasts is billed as an “anti-romcom”. Its synopsis reads: “Mandy (Piper) is a modern woman in a crisis. Raising a boy, Larch (Toby Woolf), in a female revolution and professionally writing about a love that no longer exists, she falls upon a troubled man, Pete (Leo Bill), who seeks traditional dynamics and a sense of worth in this current female movement.”

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