Pacifiction

Pacifiction

Albert Serra / 2022 / 162 min. / France

Cahiers du Cinéma’s #1 Film of 2022

2 César Awards for Best Actor and Best Cinematography

9 César Awards nominations, including Best Feature, Director, Actor, Cinematography

Winner of the Louis Delluc Prize for Best Film

Film Comment’s Ten Best Films of the year

 

On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government official De Roller (Benoît Magimel) is a calculating man with flawless manners. His somewhat broad perception of his role brings him to navigate the high end ’establishment’ as well as shady venues where he mingles with the locals. Especially since a persistent rumor has been going around: the sighting of a submarine whose ghostly presence could herald the return of French nuclear testing.

 

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  • “A gorgeous new movie. Stunning. Seductive. A filmmaker who’s thrillingly alive to the world he’s showing us.”

    — Justin Chang, LA Times
  • "Suggests John le Carré by way of David Lynch — a feverish and haunting but also wry and meditative rumination on power, secrecy and the color of clouds over water at sunset."

    — A.O. Scott, The New York Times
  • “One of the ten best films of 2022! A paranoid thriller about colonialist hubris in Tahiti.”

    — James Quandt, Artforum
  • "One of the most beautiful and rigorously introspective movies of this or any year, a film that makes you deeply ponder the fate of humanity itself."

    — Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire
  • "Strangely captivating... a truly original cinematic experience."

    — Lee Marshall, Screen Daily
  • "One of [Serra's] most accomplished and mature films to date."

    — David Jenkins, Little White Lies
  • "A film unlike any other this year... Serra’s vision ultimately is as beguiling as it is boundless, and strangely romantic."

    — Rory O'Connor, The Film Stage
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