''Continental Drift (South)'' (french: La dérive des continents (au sud)) is a 2022

Swiss-French Swiss French (french: français de Suisse or ') is the variety of French spoken in the French-speaking area of Switzerland known as Romandy. French is one of the four official languages of Switzerland, the others being German, Italian, and Ro ...

comedy-drama Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...

film written by

Lionel Baier Lionel Baier (born 13 December 1975 in Lausanne) is a Switzerland, Swiss film director. Career Lionel Baier studied Art at University of Lausanne from 1995–98. In 2009, he co-founds the production company Bande à Part films, together with Ur ...

and Laurent Larivière, directed by Baier and starring

Isabelle Carré Isabelle Carré (born 28 May 1971) is a French actress. She has appeared in more than 70 films since 1989. She won a César Award for Best Actress for her role in '' Se souvenir des belles choses'' (2001), and has been nominated a further six ti ...

and

Théodore Pellerin Théodore Pellerin (, born June 13, 1997) is a Canadians, Canadian film and television actor from Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the 2018 film ''Family First (film), Family First (Chien de garde)'', for which he won the Prix Iris ...

Cast

as Nathalie Adler *

as Albert Adler *

Ursina Lardi Ursina Lardi (born 19 December 1970, in Samedan) is a Swiss actress, best known for playing the baroness, Marie-Louise in '' The White Ribbon''. Lardi studied acting at the Academy of Performing Arts Ernst Busch in Berlin and played at various th ...

as Ute Lerner *Ivan Georgiev as Timotei Bacalov

Release

The film premiered at the

2022 Cannes Film Festival The 75th annual Cannes Film Festival is an upcoming film festival scheduled to take place from 17 to 28 May 2022. The festival will see a tribute to actor Tom Cruise, whose film '' Top Gun: Maverick'' is due to premiere at the festival. The off ...

in May 2022.

Reception

Allan Hunter of ''

Screen International ''Screen International'' is a British film magazine covering the international film business. It is published by Media Business Insight, a British B2B media company. The magazine is primarily aimed at those involved in the global film business. ...

'' gave the film a positive review and wrote, "Pleasantly entertaining, Continental Drift has a busy plot that finds easy solutions to complex issues and turns towards the sentimental..." Alex Heeney of ''Seventh Row'' said, "Lionel Baier’s biting yet heartfelt Cannes film ''Continental Drift (South)'' tackles the migrant crisis and personal failures of empathy with wit and intelligence."

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* * {{Rotten Tomatoes, continental_drift_south 2022 comedy-drama films French comedy-drama films Swiss comedy-drama films 2020s French films French LGBT-related films Swiss LGBT-related films 2022 LGBT-related films LGBT-related comedy-drama films