Tropic
Twin brothers Tristan and Lazaro are best friends and are both training for the admissions test to the Astronaut Academy for a military program for the colonization of space.
One night, during a training session, Tristan is contaminated with a mysterious toxic liquid. This affects his body and psyche: he becomes tremendously huge and physically strong, but very weak mentally. The accident destroys the bonds between the brothers, and each twin must fight on alone. Lazaro has to learn to forget the old image of his brother and love him as he is now, although the world has no place for monsters like Tristan...
Cast
- Charles
- Victor Robert
- Oscar
- Alane Delahaye
- Louis
- Marvin Dubart
- Mayra
- Marta Nieto
- Tristán
- Louis Peres
- Lázaro
- Pablo Cobo
Tropic
Édouard Salier
- Fiction
- Production Country / Year
- France 2022
- Language
- frz., span. OF m. engl. UT
- Format
- DCP, Color, 110min
2.39:1, Discrete 5.1
Director & Crew
Édouard Salier
Born in 1976 in Bordeaux/France. Studied Graphic Design in Paris. Active as a director, graphic designer, designer and photographer.
Filmography
| 2004 | Empire | Kurzfilm | |
| 2005 | Flesh | Kurzfilm | |
| 2009 | 4 | Kurzfilm | |
| 2014 | Habana | Kurzfilm | |
| 2018 | Cabeza madre | Spielfilm | |
| 2020 | Africa mia | Dokumentarfilm Co-Regie |
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| 2022 | Tropic | Spielfilm | 2023 |
“Here you see the complexity of human relationships in a highly competitive and fast-paced society. This is a world where there is no place for people on the margins of society. A society where our instincts drive us to forcibly separate ourselves from others and where being disabled or different in the broadest sense triggers a collective process of banishment.
But I move on the cusp of the science fiction genre because I would like to work on the ‘mythology’ of the film, because I try to make the film as reflexive as possible, to involve the viewer as much as possible. And because both literature and hybrid films that are unclassifiable have influenced my tastes. TROPIC is influenced by everything I like about Cronenberg and Verhoeven, by the dystrophic comic universe of Charles Burns, the mangas of Taiyô Matsumoto, or even the literature of Magical Realism.”
Édouard Salier
- Writer
- Mauricio Carrasco
- Director of Photography
- Mathieu Plainfossé
- Editor
- Julien Perrin
- Production Designer
- Pascal Le Guellec
- Costume Designer
- Reem Kuzayli
- Elise Bouquet
- Casting Director
- Marlène Sero
- Florie Carbonne
- Sound
- Thomas Gastinel
- Music Composer
- SebastiAn -
- Producer
- Ninon Chapuis
- Jean-Michel Rey