Animal Kingdom: fierce creatures

First-time feature director David Michôd tamed the beasts that inhabit his Animal Kingdom; a Melbourne crime thriller that is the Australian success story of 2010. Miguel Gonzalez reports from Melbourne.

I/E GUS’S CAR – DAY

J looks down the street. It’s empty. Gus puts the car in drive and moves off. J cranes

around to look out the back window, down the street. Then –