Submergence
Clinging to life in a cell in Africa, James is brutally interrogated by jihadis. Worlds away, Danielle prepares to descend into the Arctic Sea. Facing life-or-death ordeals, they must rely on their deep emotional connection.
21 December 1973, Evry, Essonne, France
1972
21 November 1965, Sudan
22 July 1977, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
21 April 1979, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
4 June 1979, Anglesey, Wales, UK
April 12, 2018
Despite their strong performances, McAvoy and Vikander are unable to save this sinking ship of a film. Ultimately, we are sadly left with an average movie that leaves viewers feeling disappointed and unsatisfied.
April 12, 2018
Submergence - despite much lovesick gravitas from its two leads - never quite coalesces into the epic romance that it should. It fizzles when it should ignite, leaving the viewer with a palpable yearning for something other than a shrug.
April 11, 2018
An objectively bad movie, paradoxically ponderous and pointless.
April 10, 2018
Submergence moves, as one of its creatures, in waters so turbulent it can't scale its excessive ambitions. [Full Review in Spanish]
September 12, 2017
Even two glamorous and well-matched stars of the moment can't do much to undermine the Wenders meander.
April 12, 2018
Ms. Dignam's script distills the novel into middlebrow Hollywood treacle.
September 12, 2017
The most roundly satisfying fiction feature Wenders has made since, well, that first one about the angel so in love he gives up immortality.
April 11, 2018
You'll have nobody to blame but yourself - or the filmmakers - if you keep watching after the sixty-minute mark.
April 12, 2018
Submergence is worthy of the engravings that could have illustrated a poetic anthology of Hölderlin. [Full Review in Spanish]
April 10, 2018
Submergence lives only pending its rigor, its strange and pompous efforts of abstraction. And, of course, it runs out. There is no air left. [Full Review in Spanish]
April 12, 2018
Despite the potent raw material at his disposal, Wenders listlessly flips back and forth between the two backdrops, allowing any remaining element of dramatic tension to slowly seep out along the way.
April 12, 2018
Much of "Submergence" remains frustratingly inert and vague, as though the helmer never wanted to commit to a single idea, instead offering several half-baked concepts with hopes something might stick.
