Synopsis
Island of Tahiti. French government official De Roller is a calculating man with impeccable manners, capable of dealing with both high society and the locals he frequents in shady joints.
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Cast
- Benoît MagimelDe Roller
- Pahoa MahagafanauShannah
- Marc SusiniL’amiral
- Matahi PambrunMatahi
- Sergi LópezMorton
- Montse TriolaFrancesca
- Michael VautorLe capitaine
- Cécile GuilbertRomane Attia
- Lluís SerratLoïs
- Mike LandscapeMr. Mike
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The Film Stage
Pacifiction draws you in with its sense of mystery and surrealism and leaves you ultimately agog. - 100
The Playlist
A gorgeous and grave anti-epic, Pacifiction proceeds in scenes that serve as pristine containers for Serra’s idiosyncratic style, slow and digressive, full of flabby jokes and windy talk. It’s like watching a tropical aquarium slowly fill with algae. - 100
IndieWire
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. - 88
Slant Magazine
Pacifiction uses its thin narrative elements as a pretense to explore the texture of uncertainty, suspicion, and inaction. - 80
The Guardian
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. - 70
Screen Daily
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. - 70
Variety
Pacifiction is a film in many ways about floating, through life and water and power, inviting the viewer to idly drift right along with it. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Quite watchable, even sort of plot-driven — for a Serra film.