Cinema: a double meaning for “The drift of the continents (to the south)” by Lionel Baier


Théodore Pellerin, Isabelle Carré, on the poster for

Somewhere in Sicily, the French president and the German chancellor have planned to visit a migrant camp. The emissaries of the two leaders are sent upstream and find the camp too clean, too functional. So begins the grating comedy Continental Drift (to the south) which is being released this week in theaters in France after having been screened at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes this year. Sophie Torlotin had met the Swiss director, Lionel Baier, in Cannes.

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