Sophia Antipolis: a technopole on the French Riviera, a place where dreams should come true. But fear and despair lurk beneath the surface. Under a deceitful sun, five lives map out the haunting story of a young woman: Sophia.
Sophia Antipolis is an exceptional film by one of the most passionate contemporary directors in the French film landscape. Virgil Vernier's work could be defined as 'psychogeography'. People and places merge in a simultaneously dreamy, disturbing, contemporary world. Poetic and documentary-like images intertwine. Vernier says the following about his work: "I make films out of a desire to grasp what is timeless in our age, what can communicate with the archaic, and hence with the future. I look for what could be understandable to an ancient civilization."