Pacifiction
Pacifiction – Tourment sur les îles

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Directed by Albert Serra
Produced by Albert Serra, Pierre-Olivier Bardet, Dirk Decker, Joaquim Sapinho, Andrea Schütte, and Marta Vieira Alves
Written by Albert Serra

With: Benoît Magimel, Pahoa Mahagafanau, Marc Susini, Matahi Pambrun, Alexandre Melo, Sergi López, Montse Triola, Michael Vautor, Cécile Guilbert, and Lluís Serrat

Cinematography: Artur Tort
Editing: Albert Serra, Ariadna Ribas, and Artur Tort
Music: Joe Robinson and Marc Verdaguer

Runtime: 165 min
Release Date: 09 November 2022
Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1
Color: Color

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Spanish indie filmmaker Albert Serra spins an immersively dreamlike, epic colonial political anti-thriller about a high-ranking diplomat on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti trying to get to the bottom of a rumor about the return of French nuclear testing. Think John le Carré meets Michael Mann by way of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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