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KING BABY

By Arran SHEARING, Kit REDSTONE

Drama - Completed 2024

A warped modern fairytale plays out in a crumbling ‘kingdom’ populated only by a King and a Servant. The arrival of a mannequin Queen throws their power dynamic into disarray and their carefully constructed world begins to fracture into isolation, madness, and murderous megalomania.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM, CANADA, FRANCE
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Arran SHEARING, Kit REDSTONE
- Writer(s)
- Kit REDSTONE, Arran SHEARING
- Producer(s)
- Franck PRIOT (GHOSTS CITY), Kit REDSTONE (Vacuum Theater ), Ye SHU (GHOSTS CITY)
- Synopsis
- In the middle of a forest, in a palace in ruins that has stood the test of time, a King is served in his complicated daily ritual by his Valet. Getting up, hunting, dancing, speeches, bathing, going to bed... All under the watchful eye of the Queen, a wooden mannequin built by the Servant to please the King. Everyone is in their role, accustomed to this routine as ceremonial as it is absurd. But each of the two is envious of the fate of the other, as their dreams translate.… Becoming paranoid and pursued by the fear of emasculation even in his nightmares, the King believes he can find peace by abandoning his crown to the Valet. The worm is in the fruit of this flawed social order, when will it explode?