

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. They beat Saskatchewan 34-20 in their season opener, lost three in a row, then rebounded last weekend by thrashing UBC 53-14.

The defending-champion Dinos are back - this time, fighting for their playoff lives. They’ve won nine regular-season and playoff games in a row there, with their last loss a 37-28 setback against Calgary on Sept. If you’re the Huskies, Griffiths Stadium is a fine place to be of late. “All we know,” says Saskatchewan head coach Scott Flory, “is we’re at home this Saturday, and we’re at home the following Saturday. Because Saskatchewan is first, they’ll host a semifinal and (if they win that) the conference final. 4 nationally, are 4-1 and can’t be caught by anybody because of head-to-head tiebreakers.Īlberta and Manitoba are 3-2, Calgary and British Columbia are 2-3, and Regina brings up the rear at 1-4.įour teams make the playoffs. “When we’re playing a football game, we’re trying to win. “Honestly, we’re just approaching it like we do every game - play the best possible football we can, and hopefully get a W. Or maybe not “meanwhile” – Moll has cleverly constructed the various chapters on slightly askew timelines, with the result that a character’s bloody nose in one scene will be explained half an hour later, when a separate chapter catches up with events.“We know we’ve got first clinched, but there’s a big trickle-down effect on what happens,” said Huskies quarterback Mason Nyhus, whose team hosts the Calgary Dinos in their regular-season finale Saturday at 2 p.m. Meanwhile, local waitress Marion (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) has fallen hopelessly, aggressively in love with Evelyne. Though if there’s a moral to Only the Animals, it’s not to presume too much.Ĭhief among the characters is farmer Michel (Denis Ménochet), well aware that his wife is having an affair with another rancher (Damien Bonnard), even as he secretly carries on an amorous online correspondence with a woman named Amandine. Moll, adapting Colin Niel’s novel Seules les Bêtes, similarly divides his story into several chapters, each named for a character and providing their point of view concerning Evelyne Ducat (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), missing and presumed dead.
