La Gradiva

Name: La Gradiva
Genre: Drama
Released: 2026-10-21
Duration: 145 min
Cast: Emmanuelle Lafon, Suzanne Gerin, Mathéo De Carlo, Lou-Ann Le Glorennec, Youssef Ben Hadj Amor

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Release Date

10/21/2026

Runtime

145 mins

Genres

Drama

Overview

A small group of French high school students goes on a school trip to Pompeii to discover its ruins and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius in 79 CE. It is in this ghost town that they are suddenly overcome by a dizzying sensation. One after another, James, Toni, Suzanne, and their Latin teacher, Mme Mercier, allow themselves to be engulfed by desire, anger, and despair—until they surrender to it completely and lose everything.

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Released

Original Language

French

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A school trip to Pompeii becomes a haunting descent into psychological unraveling, as students and their teacher are seized by overwhelming emotions in a landscape of preserved catastrophe. The film blurs the line between literal ruin and emotional dissolution with mounting dread.