Synopsis
Afghanistan, 2014. As the withdrawal of troops approaches, Captain Antarès Bonassieu and his squad have been assigned a surveillance mission in a remote valley of Wakhan, on the border of Pakistan. Despite Antarès and his men’s determination, control of the secluded valley will slowly fall out of their hands. One dark night, soldiers begin to mysteriously disappear in the valley.
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Cast
- Jérémie RenierAntares Bonnassieu
- Swann ArlaudJérémie Lernowski
- Kévin AzaïsWilliam Denis
- Marc RobertJean-Baptiste Frering
- Finnegan OldfieldPatrick Mercier
- Christophe TekStéphane
- Clément BressonEtienne Baxer
- Sâm MirhosseiniKhalil Khan
- Edouard CourtBenjamin Julliard
- Steve TientcheuOscar Varennes
Recommendations
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Variety
The ensemble commits to the premise with utmost gravity and conviction, enabling our belief in even the most improbable interpretations of its core enigma. - 80
The New York Times
On the most fundamental level, Neither Heaven Nor Earth is an impressive stunt, a horror movie masquerading as a film about the horrors of war. But its gravity and intelligence...make it something more. - 75
Slant Magazine
While he may indulge in the occasional programmatic jump scare, writer-director Clément Cogitore ultimately heaves his debut feature closer to the realm of psychological terror, understanding that there's nothing more frightening or darker than the human mind. - 75
The A.V. Club
This virtually action-free war movie (which premiered at Cannes last year with the English-language title The Wakhan Front) will frustrate anyone seeking concrete explanations. Its haunting atmosphere, however, in conjunction with its half-harrowing, half-sleepy milieu, keeps the film fascinating until it finally fizzles. - 75
New York Post
Making elegant use of the austere landscape and the rugged features of star Jérémie Renier, the film shows how these doggedly practical and nonspiritual men cope with the eerie events, the cause of which is hinted at but never fully explained. - 75
The Film Stage
Neither Heaven Nor Earth transports you to a world where you believe anything could happen because it effectively paints wartime life so closely to supernatural terror. War may quite literally be hell. - 70
Screen Daily
This debut feature by French director Clément Cogitore has a highly suggestive philosophical agenda, but at the same time functions as a gripping, subtly eerie drama which keeps you guessing even while it maintains its supernatural (or theological) undertow simmering beneath the surface. - 70
Village Voice
Cogitore's movie is at once otherworldly and firmly tethered to stark reality.
