A group of French high school students travel to Naples on a school trip to explore the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. There, a sudden sense of vertigo takes hold of them. One by one, theysurrender to desire and anger until they are completely consumed by them.
Crédits
Interprètes
Colas Quignard, Suzanne Gerin, Mitia Capellier, Antonia Buresi
Screenplay
Marine Atlan, Anne BrouilletImage
Pierre Mazoyer, Marine AtlanEditing
Guillaume LilloSound
Paul GuilloteauMusic
Jonas AtlanProduction
Les films du poisson, Bibi FilmsGrand Prize La Semaine de la Critique, Cannes, 2026
Marine Atlan
Marine Atlan is a cinematographer, screenwriter, and director. She notably served as director of photography on Jessica Forever by Jonathan Vinel and Caroline Poggi, and L’Engloutie by Louise Hémon, for which she received a César nomination. After directing several award-winning medium-length films, La Gradiva, winner of the Grand Prix at Critics’ Week, marks her feature film debut.
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Distribution : Tandem