[Cinéma] Adèle Exarchopoulos leaves Planète B for Aude Léa Rapin – SeriesDeFilms

Two years after having ventured to the frontiers of reality with The Five Devilsa drama borrowing from fantasy concocted by Léa Mysius, Adèle Exarchopoulos continues her exploration of genres with a new project which will take her into the realm of science fiction.

The actress actually took the start for Planet Bthe second feature film by director Aude Léa Rapin, who was spotted in 2019 with Heroes never diewhich was part of the selection for the 58th Critics’ Week. Carried by Adèle Haenel and Jonathan Couzinié, this first work took the form of found footage to evoke a story of ghosts and reincarnation in the heart of Bosnia – testifying to a certain desire to head towards a territory out of the ordinary . This seems to confirm this next essay, which will tell us about parallel universes if we are to believe its first images.

Distributed by Le Pacte and produced by Les Films du Bal, to whom we owe, among others, films such as Atlantic by Mati Diop or Ahed's Knee by Nadav Lapid, this anticipation thriller will focus on the extraordinary journey of committed women. Julia Bombarth, an activist in her thirties, sees her life turned upside down following a night of rioting. Participating in a demonstration that goes wrong, the latter takes a flashball to the head, knocking her out on the spot. Waking up, Julia finds herself, to her great amazement, in an unknown world, alongside other activists present during the scuffles. The starting point for a leap into the unknown, a journey to the center of this mysterious Planet B…

At the top of the bill, Adèle Exarchopoulos will be supported by Souheila Yacoub, recently seen in Dune: Part Two by Denis Villeneuve. The cast also includes Souheila Yacoub, India Hair, Paul Beaurepaire, Eliane Umuhire and Jonathan Couzinié – who continues his pas de deux with Aude Léa Rapin after Heroes never die. Filmed in French and English, Planet B is of interest to international markets, as demonstrated in particular by its selection in festivals such as the Venice Film Festival, where it opened Critics' Week.

Anticipation film at the crossroads of genres, the feature film will be released on December 25 in dark rooms and should provoke diverse and varied reactions at this time given its subject, activism as well as the security abuses of the State crystallizing the debates in recent times.

Synopsis :

France, 2039. One night, activists hunted by the State disappear without leaving any trace. Julia Bombarth is among them. When she wakes up, she discovers herself locked in a completely unknown world: PLANET B.