Pacifiction

The latest feature from Spanish director Alberto Serra, known for Liberté and the Jean-Pierre Leaud-starring Death of Louis XIV. Shannah, a writer, returns to her homeland of Tahiti after having triumphed in France with a novel. However, she is disoriented and in a creative crisis. Faced with the impossibility of writing new works, she decides to accept a simultaneous translation job alongside an ambassador. A strange love attraction begins between them, full of contrasts. Little by little she realizes the cynicism of international politics, with a latent threat of new nuclear tests by the French government. Her love affair with the ambassador will be affected by that conflict, and interest and romance will mix in a confusing and absorbing way until the sad end.