L'été nucléaire
Atomic Summer
Gaël Lépingle
Drama | France | 2020 | 1h20
Victor, in his twenties, lives with Charlotte. They are expecting a child. When an accident occurs at the nearby nuclear power plant, he finds himself confined to a farm with his old friends from the village, when they should have evacuated the area. It is threatening to rain, and they watch for the passage of the radioactive cloud. In 24 hours, they lose all their certainties.
Shaïn Boumedine, Carmen Kassovitz, Théo Augier, Constantin Vidal, Manon Valentin
Trained as a documentary filmmaker, Gaël Lépingle has been making films for the past fifteen years, on the line between documentary and fiction, selected in international festivals such as Cinéma du Réel, Rotterdam, La Viennale or Jeonju IFF (Korea). His films Julien (2010) and Seuls les pirates (2018) each received the Grand Prix of the French competition at the FID, Marseille International Festival.
He has long worked for the rediscovery of the filmmaker Guy Gilles, through two documentaries (Guy Gilles et le temps désaccordé, Guy Gilles photographe), a book (Éditions Yellow Now), festival screening and conferences (at the Cinémathèque).
His medium-length film Une jolie vallée (2015), an entirely sung documentary, was released in theaters in April 2019 (in Paris at Saint-André des Arts), widely supported by the press (Le Monde, Télérama, Cahiers du Cinéma).
He has also directed numerous operas for choirs, co-written with Julien Joubert, and more recently operas of the repertoire with Fabrique Opéra Val de Loire (Faust in 2019, La Traviata in 2021).
