THRILLER. Guillaume Canet facing deadly rains
“Acid” at 9:05 p.m., on Canal +.
In “La Nuée” (2021), Just Philippot featured a farmer who, to save her farm from bankruptcy, began breeding edible grasshoppers and whose critters turned against her family. This time, the filmmaker imagines a father confronted with another monster: a climatic catastrophe.
A worker, Michal is on probation after he hit his boss during a riot at his company. He lives in Arras (Hauts-de-France) where his ex-wife and his daughter Selma, 15, live, but would like to settle in Brussels with his new partner. Selma is worried about the increasing heatwave alerts and especially the deadly acid rain, caused by the hyper-concentration of pollutants in the atmosphere, which are hitting Colombia and will cause, according to the media, “several hundred million refugees. » Michal tries to reassure her. Until the day when acid drops begin to fall on Hauts-de-France. The father will then run away with his daughter and his ex-wife to shelter them…
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