Pompei

In the barren expanses of a desert, a group of young people grow up with misguided role models and pent-up sexual energy. Near an excavation site lies a barren, desert-like area inhabited by a gang of young people. Toxou is the oldest and the leader of the pack. Jimmy, still barely a boy, has made Victor his role model. Everyone wears jeans and a T-shirt and knows that sooner or later, it is time to take up smoking. Lost cowboys digging for relics of a past civilization, they are caged in the freedom of a strange, seemingly deserted wasteland. The arrival of a girl called Billie awakens Victor’s desire to escape – much to Toxou’s chagrin. Calm and restless, with echoes of James Dean and Lord of the Flies, this film by Anna Falguères and John Shank tells a tale of liberation through powerful, otherworldly imagery. (Text Berlinale - Generation 14plus)

Keywords

  • Arthouse
  • Arthouse Highlights
  • Forests/Deserts
  • French Exclusive Fiction
  • Screen: Benelux
  • Sooner Exclusives
  • Sooner Exclusives: Stories that Matter
  • Storyline: Coming of Age
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  • family
  • relationship
  • youth

Actors

  • Aliocha Schneider
  • Garance Marillier
  • Vincent Rottiers
  • Judith Williquet

Director

  • Anna Falguères
  • John Shank

Drama


1h 35min


16+

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Belgium
Canada
France
2019
In the barren expanses of a desert, a group of young people grow up with misguided role models and pent-up sexual energy.

In the barren expanses of a desert, a group of young people grow up with misguided role models and pent-up sexual energy.


In the barren expanses of a desert, a group of young people grow up with misguided role models and pent-up sexual energy.



Near an excavation site lies a barren, desert-like area inhabited by a gang of young people. Toxou is the oldest and the leader of the pack.


Jimmy, still barely a boy, has made Victor his role model. Everyone wears jeans and a T-shirt and knows that sooner or later, it is time to take up smoking.


Lost cowboys digging for relics of a past civilization, they are caged in the freedom of a strange, seemingly deserted wasteland. The arrival of a girl called Billie awakens Victor’s desire to escape – much to Toxou’s chagrin.


Calm and restless, with echoes of James Dean and Lord of the Flies, this film by Anna Falguères and John Shank tells a tale of liberation through powerful, otherworldly imagery. (Text Berlinale - Generation 14plus)

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