La Gradiva - Marine Atlan

The debut feature film by French director Marine Atlan, awarded the Grand Prize of Cannes Critics’ Week. A group of French high school students travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies frozen by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. It is there that a sudden vertigo takes hold of them. One by one, they are overwhelmed by desire and anger, until they surrender themselves to these forces entirely.

Director of photography, screenwriter and filmmaker, Marine Atlan has collaborated on several significant films of contemporary French cinema, notably working as cinematographer on Nos Cérémonies by Simon Rieth, Le Ravissement by Iris Kaltenbäck and Les Reines du Drame by Alexis Langlois. Following several medium-length films, she makes her feature-film debut with La Gradiva.