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Island of Tahiti. French government official De Roller is a calculating man with impeccable manners, capable of dealing with both high society and the locals he frequents in shady joints.

Top Cast

  • Benoît Magimel

    Benoît Magimel

    De Roller

  • Pahoa Mahagafanau

    Pahoa Mahagafanau

    Shannah

  • Marc Susini

    Marc Susini

    L’amiral

  • Matahi Pambrun

    Matahi Pambrun

    Matahi

  • Sergi López

    Sergi López

    Morton

  • Montse Triola

    Montse Triola

    Francesca

  • Michaël Vautor

    Michaël Vautor

    Le capitaine

  • Cécile Guilbert

    Cécile Guilbert

    Romane Attia

  • Lluís Serrat

    Lluís Serrat

    Loïs

Overview

Island of Tahiti. French government official De Roller is a calculating man with impeccable manners, capable of dealing with both high society and the locals he frequents in shady joints.

Rating

6.2 / 10
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  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    6 May 15, 2023

    Benoît Magimel is the easy going French High Commissioner "De Roller". Charged with representing the French Government on it's Polynesian outpost of Tahiti where he travels the island in his chauffeur driven Mercedes glad-handing and pretty much going from party to party. The arrival of an admiral (Marc Susini) and some rather hunky sailors on his island soon has tongues wagging, though. Before he knows it, his placid existence is being disturbed by increasingly popular - and disturbing - rumours that the French are to restart nuclear weapons testing nearby. Of course he is assured not, and makes similar assurances to the population himself, but when local girls start to go missing the presence of the military and a general sentiment amongst the locals seems to encourage a view that it's time to assert their own independence. This creates more problems that begin to cause our diplomatic quite an headache. Can he sort it all out? Is there even anything to sort out? The thing with this film is that it is far, far too long. The story could easily lose an hour and no harm would be done. The plot, political mischief and island intrigues, would benefit from that tightening up too - perhaps sparing us from the many shots of his car! Magimel delivers an efficient characterisation here, but he is largely left to his own devices as the supporting cast struggle to build upon a rather thin storyline that needed a bit more shoring up to sustain the interest as it rambled on. It has it's moments, but sadly just not enough of them. Oh, and it's pretty wet down there!

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