Pacifiction

media release: France, Spain, Germany, Portugal | 2022 | DCP | 162 min. | French, Portuguese with English subtitles

Director: Albert Serra

Cast: Benoît Magimel, Sergi López, Pahoa Mahagafanau

Cahiers du Cinema’s pick for best film of 2022 stars Magimel as De Roller, a French bureaucrat in over his head on the island of Tahiti. Adrift in this luxuriant setting, De Roller attempts to navigate the remnants of France’s colonial empire, while the spectral presence of a nuclear submarine looms offshore. As ravishing and hypnotic as the coastal tides, Pacifiction deconstructs the paranoid political thrillers of the 1970s to mesmerizing effect. “The art film of the year. Last year and this one” (Indiewire).

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