Malevil

Malevil

1981 · 120 min · FR · 6.4 (22 votes)
Dir. Christian de Chalonge · Starring Michel Serrault, Jacques Dutronc, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Villeret, Robert Dhéry, Hanns Zischler · Music Gabriel Yared
DramaScience Fiction

In southern France, in a quiet little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his employees. As they are drinking wine, they hear a terrible noise and the heat's getting higher and higher. They don't realize what's happening: when they come out of the cellar, they realize that everything has burned, and all the buildings are destroyed...

VIBE

A chillingly plausible descent into a post-apocalyptic world. It feels like a stark, quiet testament to human endurance against overwhelming odds, focusing on the desperate struggle to rebuild amidst utter desolation.

bleaktensesomberresilientslow-burnpost-apocalypticgritty realismcharacter-drivensurvivalcommunityrebuildinghumanity
based on novel or bookdystopiapost-apocalyptic futuresurvivalnuclear explosion
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