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Jun 23, 2023 · A film by Albert Serra about the high commissioner of the Republic and French government who investigates a submarine rumor on Tahiti. The film features improvisational dialogue, long scenes, and a moody atmosphere.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Albert Serra
- 2023-06-23
Pacifiction (French: Pacifiction – Tourment sur les îles) is a 2022 internationally co-produced drama thriller film written and directed by Albert Serra, and starring Benoît Magimel. The film premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or. The film title is a portmanteau of the words Pacific and fiction.
Feb 17, 2023 · A French drama set in Tahiti, where a smooth-talking official named De Roller navigates political intrigues and nuclear threats. The film is a series of ambiguous scenes and conversations, with no clear plot or resolution, and a focus on the character's slippery nature.
Feb 16, 2023 · “Pacifiction,” the sixth feature by the Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra, luxuriates in the Polynesian twilight, as if the camera’s lens could absorb humidity and make it visible.
Oct 12, 2022 · A review of Pacifiction, a 163-minute immersive tropical thriller/reverie by Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra. The film follows the High Commissioner for French Polynesia, who faces the possibility of nuclear weapons testing in his paradise, and his encounters with various locals and visitors.
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May 27, 2022 · The first film by cultish Catalan provocateur Serra to crack Cannes’s competition lineup, “Pacifiction” is an unhurried, 164-minute tropical tour that is sort of about nothing and everything at...