Pacifiction

Name: Pacifiction
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: February 17, 2023
Duration: 165 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Alexandre Mello, Baptiste Pinteaux, Benoît Magimel, Cyrus Arai, Laurent Brissonnaud

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Grasshopper Film | Release Date: February 17, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Alexandre Mello, Baptiste Pinteaux, Benoît Magimel, Cyrus Arai, Laurent Brissonnaud, Lluís Serrat, Marc Susini, Mareva Wong, Matahi Pambrun, Mike Landscape, Montse Triola, Pahoa Mahagafanau, Sergi López

Summary: 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.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 rumour has been going around: the sighting of a submarine whose ghostly presence could herald the return of French nuclear testing.… Expand

Director: Albert Serra

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 165 min

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IndieWire Christian Blauvelt

Oct 13, 2022

Pacifiction 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, a film that makes you deeply ponder the fate of humanity itself. Read full review

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The Film Stage Rory O'Connor

May 28, 2022

Pacifiction draws you in with its sense of mystery and surrealism and leaves you ultimately agog. Read full review

Carson Lund

Jul 8, 2022

Pacifiction uses its thin narrative elements as a pretense to explore the texture of uncertainty, suspicion, and inaction. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

May 28, 2022

Albert Serra’s bizarre epic is a cheese-dream of French imperial tristesse, political paranoia and an apocalyptic despair. It is a nightmare that moves as slowly and confidently as a somnambulist, and its pace, length, and Serra’s beautiful widescreen panoramic framings – in which conventional drama is almost camouflaged or lost – may divide opinion. I can only say I was captivated by the film and its stealthy evocation of pure evil. Read full review

Lee Marshall

May 28, 2022

For resilient audiences, it provides a truly original cinematic experience. ‘Cinematic’ is a key word: the film was lavishly shot using three 4K Canon Black Magic Pocket cameras and comes with a rich soundscape that pushes the oneiric envelope and takes certain scenes into paranoid-thriller genre territory. Read full review

Thom Ernst

Feb 23, 2023

Pacifiction is a movie to experience. In the end, it’s all an analogy between politics and nightclubs and the assumption (fiction?) of power and persuasion. But that’s my guess. Your guess is as good as mine. And to that effect, ours is as good a guess as even Serra is willing to offer. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Simon Abrams

Feb 17, 2023

This isn’t a story, but an evocative collection of asked-and-answered prompts. You buy a ticket to Pacifiction and then you react, until the nudging stops. Read full review

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hamidgoodarzi

Sep 2, 2023

it was calm and quiet.
Two hours and forty-five minutes is a long time to tell a modern thriller drama, but in the end the film resorts to clichéd admiral dialogues and slogans to wrap up its drama. Nothing special happens either in the narrative or in the narrative structure or in theit was calm and quiet.
Two hours and forty-five minutes is a long time to tell a modern thriller drama, but in the end the film resorts to clichéd admiral dialogues and slogans to wrap up its drama. Nothing special happens either in the narrative or in the narrative structure or in the characterization and characters.… Expand

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