Notorious Pictures brings to the cinema from July 4th this film directed by the French director Just Philippot, presented out of competition at the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival and nominated for Best Film at the Stiges Festival in the Official Fantasy Competition section.
Torrid heat, deluge rains, hailstorms, floods, sudden changes. The climate global has now gone crazy, science sends constant alarms, politics doesn’t seem to want to listen. The situation is not the best, and so cinema tries to do what it can to bring certain themes to the center of public discourse. Hiding the message beneath the show and the genre.
At least that’s what it is, judging by this official Italian trailertry to do Acid, French eco-thriller which was presented out of competition at the 74th edition of Cannes Film Festival and which is nominated for Best Film at the Festival of Styges in the Official Fantàstic Competition section.
Acid is the director’s second feature film Just Philippotthe one that debuted in 2021 with The swarma sort of creature feature featuring grasshoppers thirsty for human blood that is available streaming on Netflix. In his new film, inspired by a short film of the same name that the director directed in 2018, Philippot tells the story of a dysfunctional family that finds itself facing an unprecedented catastrophe: deadly acid rain. In the cast, in the roles of the protagonists, there are father, mother and daughter Guillaume Canet, Lætitia Dosch And Patience Munchenbach.
Here is the official trailer, poster and plot for Acid:
During a heat wave, strange clouds begin to pour acid rain, wreaking havoc and panic across France. In a world in balance, a girl and her divorced parents must join forces to face and try to escape this climate catastrophe.
