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Les particules (2019)

98 min · Drama

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Directors

Blaise Harrison

Cast

Thomas Daloz, Néa Lüders, Salvatore Ferro, Emma Josserand, Léo Couilfort, Nicolas Marcant

As exam year begins near the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, a high-school student senses that his surroundings are changing in ways no one else notices.

The story

Near the Swiss border in the Pays de Gex, P.A. and his classmates face exam year at a high school situated above the Large Hadron Collider, where protons collide at extremely high energies. As winter begins, P.A. develops the unsettling impression that the world around him is changing, though nobody else seems to notice. He watches for strange phenomena in his surroundings, unsure whether they are causing the changes or merely accompanying them.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

Near the Swiss border, in the Pays de Gex not far from Geneva, it is exam year for P.A. and his classmates at the high school, which is situated above the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the famous LHC (Large Hadron Collider), or Grand collisionneur de hadrons, where protons collide under extremely high-energy conditions. At the start of winter, the student has the feeling that the world is changing without anyone else noticing. He observes changes in his surroundings, accompanied by or caused by strange phenomena.

Genres

Drama

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