Animals Distract Me

Creature-obsessed activist Isabella Rossellini, whose Green Porno short films about the sex lives of insects won an SFF Audience Award in 2008, returns with a wildly idiosyncratic and thoroughly charming documentary about the ways in which animals invade her imagination as well as her everyday life. While whimsically ruminating on subjects ranging from the guide dogs she trains to the demodex that live in her eyelashes, Rossellini rifles through her mother Ingrid Bergman's wardrobe with fashionista André Leon Talley, lunches with renowned chef Mario Batali and appears in character as Charles Darwin to pontificate on the principles of evolution.