“Pacification”, shock at Cannes and film of consecration for Albert Serra
The film, impossible to define or summarize, capsized Cannes last spring. Breathtaking sequences with an immense Benoît Magimel.
“Pacification”, with a Benoît Magimel at the top.
DR
An island. Tahiti, French Polynesia. And then a man, representative of the French state. His name is De Roller, he seems to cross the world as if he were walking 2 meters above the ground. It goes from an official reception to the more shady atmosphere of a nightclub. He probes people, takes the pulse of a society over which he seems to reign. Either a world in decay, in weightlessness, a world cut off from the world, where angry inhabitants and more or less suspicious notables live side by side. In this deleterious, diaphanous atmosphere, deaf rumors spread. Those of nuclear tests which would have resumed in the region. We would have seen a nuclear submarine. Something is happening or going to happen, that’s for sure. But what?