''Arctic Heart'' (french: Le Secret des banquises) is a 2016 French

romantic comedy Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...

film written and directed by Marie Madinier. It stars

Guillaume Canet Guillaume Canet (; born 10 April 1973) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, and show jumper. Canet began his career in theatre and television before moving to film. He starred in several films like ''Joyeux Noël'', '' Love Me If ...

and

Charlotte Le Bon Charlotte Le Bon (born 4 September 1986) is a Canadian actress, artist, former model and television presenter. She is known for her work in the Canal+ talk show '' Le Grand Journal'', and the films '' Yves Saint Laurent'', ''The Hundred-Foot Jo ...

Plot

Professor Quignard and his team of researchers have been studying "PPM", an immunizing protein produced by penguins, for a Nobel Prize research project. Christophine, a shy and young PhD student who is secretly in love with Quignard, decides to inject herself with the penguin genome, in an attempt to advance the professor's research and to get closer to him. Amidst all the experiments she wants him more and more, whereas the professor is always concerned about the results of his experiments. It breaks her heart that even after all she has done for him, he is so indifferent towards her but she decides to keep her feelings to herself. The results finally lead him to his goals, and he is selected to win the Nobel Prize, but Christophine realises that her body is changing and reacting to the experiments, and she decides to stay alone, closing herself to everything. When the professor finds out, he tries every possible way to save her but he has no option left other than sending her to Antarctica to live with penguins. The professor then injects himself with the same drug that Christophine took and goes and lives with her in Antarctica, after having grasped his feelings for her.

Cast

as Quignard *

as Christophine *

Anne Le Ny Anne Le Ny (born 16 December 1962) is a French actress, screenwriter and film director. Filmography Actress Screenwriter or director Theatre References French film directors French women film directors Living people French fil ...

as Nadine *

Patrick d'Assumçao Patrick d'Assumçao (born 1 June 1959) is a French actor. Theatre Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:d'Assumcao, Patrick 1959 births 21st-century French male actors French male film actors French male stage actor ...

as Philippe * Damien Chapelle as Siegfried

Distribution

The film is available in the United States and in the Netherlands on

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References

External links

* 2016 films 2016 romantic comedy films 2010s French-language films French romantic comedy films Films about scientists Films scored by Stephen Warbeck 2016 directorial debut films 2010s French films {{2010s-romantic-comedy-film-stub