PACIFICTION

By Albert SERRA

TIBOR UJFALVI (INDEPENDENT) - as CONS

Drama - Completed 2022

Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra reconfirms his centrality in the contemporary cinematic landscape with this mesmerizing, slow-building fever dream about a French bureaucrat (a monumental Benoît Magimel) drifting through a fateful trip to a French Polynesian island with increasing anxiety.

Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2022
Competition
Toronto - TIFF 2022
Wavelengths
San Sebastian FF 2022
Made in Spain
New York FF 2022
Main slate
Busan IFF 2022
Icons
Mar Del Plata IFF 2022
Autoras y Autores
Thessaloniki IFF 2022
Official Selection
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Drama, Thriller
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, SPAIN, GERMANY, PORTUGAL
    • Languages
    • FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 162 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Albert SERRA
    • Writer(s)
    • Albert SERRA
    • Synopsis
    • On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government official DE ROLLER 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.