Opal Coast, Northern France. In a quiet fishing town, extraordinary things start happening: the birth of a special baby triggers a war between good and evil empires from other planets. Lightsaber fights, explosions and a forbidden love story begin in a banal coastal landscape. Winner of the Silver Bear, the Grand Jury Prize in Berlin, Bruno Dumont reinterprets the science fiction genre and creates a European version of Star Wars, offering not only a satirical vision of the cosmic apocalypse, but also a perceptive commentary on the contemporary human condition.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 50 min.
- Country, year
- France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, 2024
- Genre
- Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Comedy
- Language
- French
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- Pegi 13
Credits
- Director
- Bruno Dumont
- Screenplay
- Bruno Dumont
- Producers
- Rachid Bouchareb, Jean Bréhat, Bertrand Faivre
- Cinematography
- David Chambille
- Cast
- Lyna Khoudri, Anamaria Vartolomei, Camille Cottin
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
- Silver something
Director
Bruno Dumont
Former philosophy teacher Bruno Dumont (The Life of Jesus, Humanity, Flanders) made his first feature film at the age of 38 and won several awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Dumont's cinema combines realism, existential themes, a combination of beauty and brutality, and the harsh Normandy landscape. The director provokes the audience by breaking the rules of genre cinema. Dumont's films Camille Claudel 1915 (2013), Slack Bay (2016), and the musical Joan of Arc (2019) were screened at Scanorama.
