Submergence

fiction / 2017 / USA, Germany, France, Spain / col. / 111 min.

Director: Wim Wenders
Screenplay: Erin Dignam
Photography: Benoît Debie
Editor: Toni Froschhammer
Music: Fernando Velázquez
Cast: James McAvoy, Alicia Vikander, Alexander Siddig, Celyn Jones, Reda Kateb, Mohamed Hakeemshady, Alex Hafner, Audrey Quoturi, Harvey Friedman, Jess Liaudin

The story begins with a deliriously wild love affair between two people near the resort town of Dieppe, on Franceʼs northern coast. James is a globe-trotting water engineer, while Danielle is a bio-mathematician working on a deep-sea diving project. They fall rapidly and unexpectedly into each otherʼs arms, even though their jobs are destined to separate them. Neither is fully prepared for what will happen next. While Danny, fascinated with exploring the oceanʼs greatest depths, sets off on a perilous quest, James leaves for Somalia, where he is soon sucked into a geopolitical vortex that puts him in grave danger. Both characters are subject to different kinds of isolation as they pine for each other; their determination to reconnect becomes as much an existential journey as a love story. (source: Toronto IFF)