Synopsis
Back to the big bang: an atmospherically dense debut feature links sci fi with auteur cinema and describes the creeping transformation of the world into its constituent parts. At the foot of the Jura Mountains, 17-year old P. A. and his clique are spending their last years at school. A hundred metres below them, scientists are conducting a gigantic experiment: with the aid of the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, they want to reconstruct the first microsecond after the big bang. As winter sets in, P. A. becomes aware that everything around him is being displaced. Glowing particles, abnormalities in the landscape, tiny changes in the ecosystem. The metabolism of the world has begun.
Bio
BLAISE HARRISON (*1980 in France) studied at the École cantonale d'art in Lausanne. He started out making shorts and documentaries which were also shown at numerous festivals. Particles is his debut feature film.
Info
Original Title: Les particules
International Title: Particles
Category: Feature
Section: Voilà!
Version & Subtitles: French, English OV with English subtitles
Director: Blaise Harrison
Screenplay: Blaise Harrison, Mariette Désert
Cast/Protagonists: Thomas Daloz, Néa Lüders, Salvatore Ferro, Emma Josserand, Léo Couilfort, Nicolas Marcant
Production country: France, Switzerland
Year of Production: 2019
Length: 98 min
Producer: Estelle Fialon, Lionel Baier
Production company: Les Films du Poisson, Bande A Part Films
Cinematography: Colin Lévêque
Editor: Isabelle Manquillet, Gwénola Héaulme
Production Design: Florence Emery
World Sales: Lise Zipci, Les Films du Losange
