Acid

Acid (2023)

Acide

During a heat wave, strange clouds start pouring down acid rain, wreaking devastation and panic throughout France. In a world teetering on the edge, a girl and her divorced parents must join forces to confront and try to escape this climate catastrophe.

Date of release
2023-09-20
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (373)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Drama, Science Fiction, Fantasy
Director
Just Philippot

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $2.5M

Acid is a 2023 French-language fantasy drama film directed by Just Philippot from a screenplay by Philippot and Yacine Badday. The film is a co-production between France and Belgium. It is an expansion of Philippot's 2018 short film of the same name.

Production

Acid is a feature-length expansion of Just Philippot's short film of the same name. which was released in 2018. Philippot developed Acid in parallel with his debut feature The Swarm (La Nuée), both through the company Bonne Pioche Cinéma. He wrote the screenplay with Yacine Badday.

Acid was produced Yves Darondeau, Emmanuel Priou and Clément Renouvin for Bonne Pioche Cinéma and by Ardavan Safaee for Pathé Films. It was co-produced by France 3 Cinéma, Guillaume Canet's Caneo Films, Belgium's Umedia, and Logical Content Ventures.

Principal photography began on 7 March 2022, under the working title Eau-Forte. Between 24 March and 7 April 2022, filming took place in Pecqueuse, Essonne.

Filming also took place in Belgium. Filming took place in Visé between 11 and 26 April 2022, with the Pont de Lanaye closed to facilitate the production. Filming also took place in fort d'Emines, Namur Province, and in Braine-le-Comte, Hainaut Province, including in the Bois de la Houssière on 26 and 27 April 2022. Filming concluded in the middle of the night of 10 May 2022.

The music for the film was composed by Robin Coudert.

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