The Shrinking Man

The Shrinking Man

2025 · 99 min · FR · 6.1 (136 votes)
Dir. Jan Kounen · Starring Jean Dujardin, Marie-Josée Croze, Daphné Richard, Serge Swysen, Salim Talbi, Miranda Raison · Music Alexandre Desplat
AdventureScience Fiction

Paul, is an ordinary man who divides his life between his shipbuilding company, his wife Elise and their daughter Mia. During a sea trip, Paul finds himself confronted with a strange, unexplained meteorological phenomenon. From then on, Paul shrinks inexorably, without science being able to explain why or be of any help to him. When, by accident, he finds himself a prisoner in his own cellar, and while he is only a few centimeters tall, he will have to fight to survive in this banal environment that has become perilous. During this experience, Paul will find himself confronted with himself, with his humanity, and will try to answer the great questions of existence.

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A man's terrifying descent into a microscopic world forces him to confront his own existence. This intimate sci-fi drama is a tense, philosophical journey into the heart of what it means to be human when everything else disappears.

existentialtenseclaustrophobiccontemplativeslow-burnphilosophical sci-fisurvival thrillerintimate dramaidentityhumanitysurvivalexistentialism
based on novel or bookshrinkingremakesurvivalphilosophical
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