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A Balasaur Score of 82 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.3/10, Rotten Tomatoes 100%, Metacritic 100/100. Critics rate it 37 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 92% of the 6,810 2020s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
A small group of French high school students goes on a school trip to Pompeii to discover its ruins and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius in 79 CE. It is in this ghost town that they are suddenly overcome by a dizzying sensation. One after another, James, Toni, Suzanne, and their Latin teacher, Mme Mercier, allow themselves to be engulfed by desire, anger, and despair—until they surrender to it completely and lose everything.
Ratings
IMDb6.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Metacritic100/100
Critics rate it 37 points higher than audiences do.
Key crew
- Marine AtlanDirector
- Marine AtlanWriter
- Anne BrouilletWriter
Cast
- Colas QuignardToni
- Antonia BuresiMadame Mercier
- Mitia Capellier-AudatJames
- Suzanne GerinSuzanne
- Hadya FofanaAngela
- Rouge IsaacAmaury
- Lou-Ann Le GlorennecConstance
- Chamathka WarahenaChamathka
- Cherazade HammediCherazade
- Camille Ménard-HarnishÉtienne
- Gustave TersiguelHugo
- Mathéo De CarloJean-Eudes
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