Submergence
In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, an Englishman, James Moore, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, Danielle Flinders prepares to dive in a submersive to the ocean floor. In their confines they are drawn back to the Christmas of the previous year, where a chance encounter on a beach in France led to an intense and enduring romance.
1972
21 April 1979, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
4 June 1979, Anglesey, Wales, UK
1959, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
21 December 1973, Evry, Essonne, France
3 October 1988, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
21 November 1965, Sudan
22 July 1977, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
27 November 1979, Lyon, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France
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 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 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.
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
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 11, 2018
An objectively bad movie, paradoxically ponderous and pointless.
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]
September 12, 2017
Even two glamorous and well-matched stars of the moment can't do much to undermine the Wenders meander.
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]
April 11, 2018
You'll have nobody to blame but yourself - or the filmmakers - if you keep watching after the sixty-minute mark.
