The Swarm
(2021)
★ 5.8 IMDb · 521 votes
Year: 2021
Runtime: 101 мин
Country: France
Director: Just Philippot
Cast: Suliane Brahim, Sofian Khammes, Marie Narbonne, Raphael Romand, Nathalie Boyer, Victor Bonnel, Christian Bouillette, Raphaël Liot
Plot
A single mother breeds locusts as high-protein foods but has trouble getting them to reproduce until she finds they have a taste for blood.
Virginie lives on a farm with her children Laura (15) and Gaston (7) and raises grasshoppers to be made into flour. Life is hard: money worries and practical problems are piling up, tensions with her kids and neighbors are running high... But everything changes when she discovers the locusts have a taste for blood.