Must-See Movie of the Week: Creator’s Finest Gem Scores 3.8/5!

Over six years after his last feature film, Sophia Antipolis, Virgil Vernier makes a comeback with “100 000 000 000 000 – One Hundred Trillion”, starring breakout talents Zakaria Bouti, Mina Gajovic, and Victoire Song. Released this week in theaters, this drama revolves around prostitution in Monaco during the Christmas holidays and has received favorable reviews from the French press, with an average rating of 3.8 out of 5.

What’s It About?

They spent the entire night talking in Julia’s room. She spoke of palaces, castles, diamonds, and all the gold she had seen. She told him what happens after death. Afine listened silently, dazzled by all these things he had never heard of before.

Critics’ Take:

According to Les Inrockuptibles:

“By capturing his characters lost in a deserted principality during the Christmas holidays, the director of ‘Sophia Antipolis’ delivers a powerful political scan of our era.” By Ludovic Béot – 5/5

According to Cahiers du Cinéma:

“Indeed, the film opens like a fairy tale… but it’s a hollowed-out fairy tale that Vernier ironically throws in the faces of his characters, a trio of disenchanted orphans.” By Vincent Malausa – 4/5

According to L’Obs:

“The wandering of the young man is warmed by the company of a wealthy 12-year-old girl, who becomes temporarily orphaned by the evening’s events. Their silent complicity infuses the film with a strange and fascinating fluid, somewhere between pure magic and fleeting bromance.” By Guillaume Loison – 4/5

According to La Septième Obsession:

“This modern and dystopian Christmas tale, filled with secret reminiscences and promises yet to come, is undoubtedly the most exquisite gem in its creator’s already sparkling oeuvre.” By Jérôme D’Estais – 4/5

According to Libération:

“In his third feature film, the filmmaker exhibits a keen awareness of ultra-contemporary spaces, their architecture and particular vibrations, harboring grandiose future hopes, the kind now known to be obsolete in our triumphalist capitalist society.” By Elisabeth Franck-Dumas – 4/5

According to Transfuge:

“‘One Hundred Trillion’ appears as an eschatological version of ‘The Thousand and One Nights,’ in which the lens of catastrophe emerges as the last remedy for the malaise of our century.” By Corentin Destefanis Dupin – 4/5

According to Télérama:

“The director of ‘Mercuriales’ and ‘Sophia Antipolis’ gently examines the meandering of this placid young man among a gallery of odd characters, lingering over the Christmas decorations, construction, and cranes devouring the principality: urban melancholy as the only escape?” By Augustin Pietron-Locatelli – 4/5

According to Critikat.com:

“Thanks to its hybrid imagination, the Monegasque territory is perceived in all its strangeness, far from dominant representations that would lock perception by attaching a prefabricated socio-economic discourse.” By Robin Vaz – 3/5