PACIFICTION – A SUBMERGED WORLD
Type: political thriller ✦✦✦
Director: Albert Serra. With Benoît Magimel, Matahi Pambrun, Pahoa Mahaga Fanau, Marc Susini
Specialized in the tale of empires in decline (the Don Quixote of Honor of chivalry, The death of Louis XIV), the Catalan director who forgot to give awards at Cannes last year appeals this time to the gaze of an ordinary man, but perhaps only in appearance: the French high commissioner (the prefect) of Thaitthe.
De Roller (Magimel, winner of the César)between postcard sunsets, ukulele notes and the threat of resumption of nuclear tests, moves like a Graham Greene character.
Benoît Magimel in a scene from the film “Pacifiction – An underwater world” by Albert Serra
Consumed by paranoia, opaque and megalomaniacal in his relationship with the natives, the neocolonial politician, lascivious and lost, circles in his hellish paradise. An unclassifiable film, a bizarreness steeped in melancholy about the illusion that generates power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zraVxDbssBo
LEGEND
✦ modest
✦✦ good
✦✦✦ excellent
✦✦✦✦ masterpiece
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