2023-09-20 09:02:04
The film “Acide” directed by Just Philippot with Guillaume Canet and Laetitia Dosch was released in cinemas this Wednesday September 20, 2023.
A family does everything possible to survive when acid rain hits France. This is what awaits the spectator who goes to the theaters to discover “Acid“, at the cinema this Wednesday, September 20, 2023. In this production of Just Philippot (“La Nuée”), Guillaume Canet and Laetitia Dosch play a divorced couple at the heart of this apocalyptic crisis born from climate change, opposite Patience Munchenbach in the role of their daughter.
Ce thriller anticipation is inspired by a certain scientific reality: this type of precipitation does indeed exist, with a lesser impact than the world the film “Acid”. Acid rain is formed due to the presence of gases present in the atmosphere (mainly sulfur oxide and nitrogen) and capable of dissolving in water, then forming sulfurous acid or nitric acid.
At present, acid rain is not as dangerous as shown in the Just Philippot film. Although they have no known direct impacts on humans or wildlife, we know that they have consequences on the acidification of soils, on bodies of water or even on flora and certain plants. In particular, they can circulate certain toxic products and have indirect impacts, since they affect water or air quality.
A metaphor for current crises
But this does not mean that the threat of climate change is not real, as recalled Guillaume Canet in the press release accompanying the release of the thriller: “It is also plausible that one day, acid rain will be more devastating than it already is and that we will approach the situation depicted in the film. In the film, acid rain burns everything it touches but it also symbolically represents the burning of the planet due to global warming.”
“Acid” is thus a cry of alarm about the apocalyptic consequences that climate change can have. But it also warns of the possible consequences of the various political and social crises that we have been going through for several years, since the screenwriters were inspired by Covid, the war in Ukraine or the yellow vest movement.
“Acid rain allowed us to converge on all these crises without explicitly mentioning them,” explains Just Philippot in the press release. “We are all in collective denial: we know that global warming is happening but we continue to live as if nothing had happened.” “Acid” can be seen at the cinema this Wednesday, September 20.
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