Rhinos, zookeepers, drunks, dognappers and Claude Chabrol all meander into the frame in this deadpan slapstick metaphysic. In Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern's oddball treatise, man is continually compared to the zoo animals. The filmmakers cagily counterpoint images of pig snouts, elephant flab and herds of ghastly entomological oddities with similar scenes of the weirder-looking homo sapiens.

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