Benoît Magimel

Pahoa Mahagafanau

Marc Susini

Matahi Pambrun

Sergi López

Montse Triola

Michael Vautor

Cécile Guilbert

Lluís Serrat

Mike Landscape

Cyrus Arai

Mareva Wong

Baptiste Pinteaux

Laurent Brissonnaud

Florence Garneau

Práxedes de Vilallonga

Jean-Philippe Tahitua

Hinatea Boosie

Eva Bourgeois

Lorenzo Avve

Alexandre Melo

Pierre-Olivier Bardet

Albert Serra

Artur Tort

Olivier Père

Ariadna Ribas

Marc Verdaguer

Jordi Ribas

Benjamin Laurent

Bruno Tarrière

Marta Vieira Alves

Dirk Decker

Laurent Jacquemin

Elisabeth Pawlowski

Joaquim Sapinho

Andrea Schütte

Joe Robinson

Aurélie Vigouroux

Sebastián Vogler

Gaston Marcotti

Drama

Thriller

Pacifiction

Andergraun Films

Idéale Audience

Rosa Filmes

ARTE France Cinéma

Lupa Film

Tamtam Film

Archipel Production

France

French Polynesia

Germany

Portugal

Spain

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Benoît Magimel is the easy going French High Commissioner "De Roller". Charged with representing the French Government on it's Polynesian outpost of Tahiti where he travels the island in his chauffeur driven Mercedes glad-handing and pretty much going from party to party. The arrival of an admiral (Marc Susini) and some rather hunky sailors on his island soon has tongues wagging, though. Before he knows it, his placid existence is being disturbed by increasingly popular - and disturbing - rumours that the French are to restart nuclear weapons testing nearby. Of course he is assured not, and makes similar assurances to the population himself, but when local girls start to go missing the presence of the military and a general sentiment amongst the locals seems to encourage a view that it's time to assert their own independence. This creates more problems that begin to cause our diplomatic quite an headache. Can he sort it all out? Is there even anything to sort out? The thing with this film is that it is far, far too long. The story could easily lose an hour and no harm would be done. The plot, political mischief and island intrigues, would benefit from that tightening up too - perhaps sparing us from the many shots of his car! Magimel delivers an efficient characterisation here, but he is largely left to his own devices as the supporting cast struggle to build upon a rather thin storyline that needed a bit more shoring up to sustain the interest as it rambled on. It has it's moments, but sadly just not enough of them. Oh, and it's pretty wet down there!