In conversation with... Bart Layton on American Animals | BFI

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Channel: BFI · 2018 · Film & Animation

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Director Bart Layton (The Imposter) visits the BFI to talk about his new film, American Animals. 

In American Animals, two bored, overachieving university friends, Warren (Evan Peters) and Spencer (Barry Keoghan), want to rebel against their comfortable, suburban upbringing. Their solution: to steal priceless books from their university’s special collections library with their not-quite-Ocean’s 11 gang of student misfits. It's an energetic, off-kilter heist film that plays with reality and fiction.

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