SOUDAIN SEULS / SUDDENLY

Vincent and Laura are a passionate but volatile couple who embark on a round-the-world sailing adventure to give their relationship a new start. During their trip, they decide to explore a vast deserted island which they discover off the coast of Chile. Caught in a violent storm, they shelter in an abandoned whaling station for the night but wake up the next morning to find their boat has disappeared. Stranded in a hostile environment with no means of communication, dwindling supplies and winter approaching they must work together in a life and death battle for survival, that will challenge their feelings and change their relationship forever.

TOMA BIDGEN / THOMAS BIDEGAIN

Thomas Bidegain (1968) is a French screenwriter, producer and film director. He is noted for his collaborations with the director Jacques Audiard. He received the César Award for Best Original Screenplay for A Prophet (2010) and Best Adaptation for Rust and Bone (2013); both awards were shared with Audiard. Bidegain’s directorial debut The Cowboys (2015) premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight section at the Cannes Film Festival.

 

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Bidegain reproduces with great skill the structure of the classical desert island-set survival film, but away from the tropics, throwing his characters in the cold polar weather, and transforms the remarriage comedy into a drama.

Aurore Engelen, Cineuropa