La Gradiva
Marine Atlan
Female Director
2026
145
France, Italy
Synopsis
An obsessive quest on the borderline between memory and illusion
A class of high school students travels to Pompeii to discover ruins and bodies petrified by Vesuvius. The trip becomes a rare moment when the force of youth meets a world frozen in time. Their desires start to surface with unexpected intensity, leading them toward an irreversible fracture.
What results from the clash between the fleeting moment of youth and the timelessness of ruins? I had a sense that there lay a powerful dramatic and aesthetic promise.
Cast/Avec
- Colas Quignard
- Suzanne Gerin
- Mitia Capellier
- Antonia Buresi
Screenplay
- Marine Atlan
- Anne Brouillet
Cinematographer
- Pierre Mazoyer
- Marine Atlan
Sound
- Paul Guilloteau
Production
- Les Films du Poisson
- Bibi Films
Age classification
- 16+
Screenings
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Wednesday 07 October 2026
20:00
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Marine Atlan
Marine Atlan is a French cinematographer, film director, and screenwriter.
After earning a technical degree in audiovisual studies at the Lycée Jacques Prévert in Boulogne-Billancourt and spending a year at university, she entered the Cinematography (Image) department at La Fémis, graduating in 2015. In March 2016, she was awarded the Grand Prix at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival for her debut short film, Les Amours vertes, co-written with Anne Brouillet.
Her feature directorial debut, La Gradiva, follows a class of teenagers on a school trip to Pompeii. Selected in official competition for the Critics’ Week (Semaine de la Critique) section at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, the film earned acclaim for its staging and multi-layered narrative, ultimately winning the Critics’ Week Grand Prix.
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