Pacifiction
Saturday 25th February 8:00 PM - Alhambra
Director:Albert Serra
Cert:12A Year: 2022 Length:165mins
Country:France
On an island in French Polynesia a writer returns to her country after having triumphed in France with a novel. However, she is disoriented and in a creative crisis. Faced with the impossibility of writing new works, she decides to accept a simultaneous translation job together with an ambassador. A strange love attraction begins between them, full of contrasts. Little by little she realizes the cynicism of international politics, with a latent threat of new nuclear tests by the French government. Her love affair with the ambassador will be affected by that conflict, and interest and romance will mix in a confusing and absorbing way until the end.
Thanks to Verve Pictures
Critics
“Pacification is not a vicarious experience of luxury; it is an experience of life. Set to its own tidal rhythm, it is one of the most beautiful and rigorously introspective movies of this or any year. ”
“An extreme and demanding film, that's political in the least obvious of ways yet in the most powerful way imaginable. ”
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