La Gradiva

Synopsis

A small group of French high school students goes on a school trip to Pompeii to discover its ruins and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius in 79 CE. It is in this ghost town that they are suddenly overcome by a dizzying sensation. One after another, James, Toni, Suzanne, and their Latin teacher, Mme Mercier, allow themselves to be engulfed by desire, anger, and despair—until they surrender to it completely and lose everything.

Cast

Colas Quignard

Toni

Antonia Buresi

Madame Mercier

Mitia Capellier-Audat

James

Suzanne Gerin

Suzanne

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Hadya Fofana

Angela

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Rouge Isaac

Amaury

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Lou-Ann Le Glorennec

Constance

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Chamathka Warahena

Chamathka

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Cherazade Hammedi

Cherazade

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Camille Ménard-Harnish

Étienne

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Gustave Tersiguel

Hugo

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Mathéo De Carlo

Jean-Eudes

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Alma Polgár

Juliette

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Mariam Bouras

Mariam

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Léonilde Moucheroud

Pauline

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Emmanuelle Lafon

Madame Paquin

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Lila Latronche

Rose

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Anna Heckel

Rebecca

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Romaïssa Taleb

Safia

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Djimo Salim Nassokho

Salim

Crew

Art

• Anna Le Mouël Production Design
• Maria Raffaella Faggiano Set Designer

Camera

• Marine Atlan Director of Photography
• Pierre W. Mazoyer Director of Photography
• Joséphine Drouin-Viallard "B" Camera Operator
• Agathe Dercourt First Assistant Camera
• Bruno Martin Grip
• Lara Mzayek Second Assistant Camera

Costume & Make-Up

• Marjolaine Vialle Makeup Designer
• Francisco Terra Costume Design
• Amélie Baboulenne Makeup Designer
• Luciano Carino Hair Designer
• Marjolaine Vialle Hair Designer
• Marilou Caravati Costumer

Crew

• Giampaolo Crescenzio Stunt Coordinator
• Marion Blondeau Choreographer
• Léo Bourdet Choreographer

Directing

• Marine Atlan Director
• Jessica Naviglia Third Assistant Director
• Sarah Bonhomme Third Assistant Director
• Manon Verdeil Script Supervisor
• Anaïs Couette Assistant Director
• Laura Glynn-Smith Second Assistant Director
• Hélène Delage Second Assistant Director

Editing

• Guillaume Lillo Editor
• Xavier Sirven Additional Editing
• Xavier Sirven Supervising Editor
• Clémentine Lacroux First Assistant Editor
• Hélène Walter First Assistant Editor

Lighting

• Manon Corone Gaffer
• Marie Gramond Best Boy Electric

Production

• Inès Daïen Dasi Producer
• Aldo De Martinis Unit Manager
• Lorenza De Lucia Production Coordinator
• Clélia Koothan Production Manager
• Giovanni Napolitano Location Manager
• Angelo Barbagallo Co-Producer
• Yaël Fogiel Associate Producer
• Laetitia Gonzalez Associate Producer
• Alicia Cadot Casting Director
• Julie Sokolowski Casting Director
• Vittoria Troise Casting Assistant
• Gianluca Ferrulli Assistant Production Coordinator

Sound

• Paul Guilloteau Sound
• Paul Guilloteau Sound Editor
• Grégoire Chauvot Sound Editor
• Clément Laforce Sound Mixer
• Ttale Haran Assistant Sound Editor
• Marie Mazière Foley Artist
• Arnold Zeilig Boom Operator
• Elise Guyonnet Boom Operator
• Julien Martin Foley Mixer
• Valentin Sampietro Boom Operator

Writing

• Marine Atlan Writer
• Anne Brouillet Writer