Contagion
Trailer
Synopsis
Thing about your day-to-day life: when you hand your credit card to a waiter, when you shake hands at a work meeting or when you see someone sneeze on the bus. An instant, and the virus has been spread. Returning from a business trip to Hong Kong, Beth sees the harmless little cold she had turn into something much more serious. Soon, more cases like Beth’s start to come to light all over the planet: the pandemic is a reality, the alarm is raised. Steven Soderbergh wanted to emulate George Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven and now he already has his Six: Cotillard, Damon, Law, Paltrow, Fishburne, Winslet. To talk about a deluxe lineup would be an understatement.
Director
Steven Soderbergh
Atlanta, 1963. As a teenager, he started off in cinema shooting 16mm pieces. In 1989 he became the youngest filmmaker to grab the Golden Palm Award, for Sex, Lies and Videotape. A point of reference in indie cinema, he picked up the Academy Award for Traffic (00).
Technical information
Edition: 2011
Section: Official Fantàstic Panorama
Original language:
English