Pacifiction

    Pacifiction
    2022

    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

    Recommendations

    • 100

      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.