Arctic Heart
{{Infobox film
| name = Arctic Heart
| native_name = Le Secret des banquises
| image = Le Secret des banquises.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = Marie Madinier
| producer = Kristina Larsen
| writer = Marie Madinier
| starring = Guillaume Canet
Charlotte Le Bon
| music = Stephen Warbeck
| cinematography = Pascal Marti
| editing = Guerric Catala
| studio = Les Films du Lendemain
Entre Chien et Loup
| distributor = Mars Films
| released = {{film date|2016|6|9|Cabourg|2016|6|22|France|df=yes}}
| runtime = 81 minutes
| country = France
| language = French
| budget = $5.5 million{{cite web|url=https://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=15891|title=Le Secret des banquises |work=JP's Box-Office}}
| gross = $64.000{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?id=_fARCTICHEARTLESE01&country=FR&wk=2016W26&id=_fARCTICHEARTLESE01&p=.htm|title=Arctic Heart}}
}}
Arctic Heart ({{langx|fr|Le Secret des banquises}}) is a 2016 French romantic comedy film written and directed by Marie Madinier. It stars Guillaume Canet and Charlotte Le Bon.{{cite web |url=http://www.cineuropa.org/nw.aspx?t=newsdetail&l=en&did=289747|title=The cameras are rolling for Le secret des banquises |date=15 April 2015 |work=Cineuropa}}{{cite news |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2016/06/21/le-secret-des-banquises-un-conte-de-fees-on-the-rocks_4954627_3476.html |title=" Le Secret des banquises " : un conte de fées on the rocks |date=21 June 2016 |work=Le Monde}}
Plot
Professor Quignard and his team of researchers have been studying "PPM", an immunizing protein produced by penguins, for a Nobel Prize research project. Christophine, a shy and young PhD student who is secretly in love with Quignard, decides to inject herself with the penguin genome, in an attempt to advance the professor's research and to get closer to him.
Amidst all the experiments she wants him more and more, whereas the professor is always concerned about the results of his experiments. It breaks her heart that even after all she has done for him, he is so indifferent towards her but she decides to keep her feelings to herself. The results finally lead him to his goals, and he is selected to win the Nobel Prize, but Christophine realises that her body is changing and reacting to the experiments, and she decides to stay alone, closing herself to everything. When the professor finds out, he tries every possible way to save her but he has no option left other than sending her to Antarctica to live with penguins. The professor then injects himself with the same drug that Christophine took and goes and lives with her in Antarctica, after having grasped his feelings for her.
Cast
- Guillaume Canet as Quignard
- Charlotte Le Bon as Christophine
- Anne Le Ny as Nadine
- Patrick d'Assumçao as Philippe
- Damien Chapelle as Siegfried
Distribution
The film is available in the United States and in the Netherlands on Netflix.
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|4607228}}
Category:2016 romantic comedy films
Category:2010s French-language films
Category:French romantic comedy films
Category:Films about scientists
Category:Films scored by Stephen Warbeck
Category:2016 directorial debut films
Category:French-language romantic comedy films
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