Director: Just Philippot
A heat wave breaks over France, and the clouds that follow don't bring rain so much as a corrosive mist that dissolves everything it touches. Acid uses that premise as the backdrop for a tighter, more personal story about a separated family trying to stay together as the country falls apart around them.
What is Acid about?
The film opens mid-crisis, with panic spreading faster than official explanations as acidic rain begins scarring cities and countryside alike. At the center is a teenage girl caught between her divorced parents, who are forced back into close contact by the emergency even as their own relationship remains unresolved. As authorities scramble and public order strains under the disaster, the three make a run for safety, navigating checkpoints, crowds, and a landscape turning hostile in real time. Rather than staying purely disaster-movie in scale, the film keeps circling back to the family's fractured dynamic, using the catastrophe outside as pressure that forces overdue conversations inside the car. By the time the group nears whatever safety might still exist, survival and reconciliation have become impossible to separate from each other.
Cast & crew
Guillaume Canet and Laetitia Dosch play the divorced parents, with Patience Munchenbach as their daughter navigating the crisis alongside them. Felicia Talluto, Marie Jung, Suliane Brahim, Martin Verset, and Martial Rollin round out the supporting cast. Just Philippot directs, working again in the eco-disaster territory that shaped his earlier features.
Context & significance
Acid arrives as part of a wave of French-language climate disaster films that trade Hollywood-scale spectacle for a more grounded, character-driven approach to environmental collapse. Made in a France-Belgium co-production, the film runs 99 minutes and holds an IMDb rating of 5.1, positioning it as a mid-budget genre drama rather than a prestige awards title. Its French dialogue and setting keep the focus on a specific family rather than a generic global catastrophe.
Where & how to watch
Acid streams on K-Time behind a free account login, with no separate rental or purchase step required once you've signed up. The platform's Farsi-language interface makes it straightforward for Persian-speaking viewers to search and browse, and this title is also available with Persian-dubbed audio for households that prefer to watch in Farsi. Log in, find the title, and press play to start watching.