A linguist gets cosmic spam calls and accidentally becomes Earth's only hope. Peak 90s French weirdness.
A young man, a researcher in ancient languages, begins to receive strange radio messages in a language only he knows. The messages ask him for very bizarre missions. Eventually, he understands that he's just a pawn in an intergalactic game, and that the fate of Earth depends on him.
Acting
Philippe Volter's unraveling everyman desperation
Direction
Jolivet's claustrophobic paranoid atmosphere
Director
Pierre Jolivet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jolivet shot this on a shoestring after his bigger budget fell through, forcing the radio-based plot that became its strength.
Part of a 1990s French wave of lo-fi sci-fi paranoia, alongside works like La Cité des Enfants Perdus, exploring millennial anxiety through cosmic powerlessness.
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