Upside Down (2012 film)
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| Directed by | Juan Diego Solanas |
| Produced by | Claude Léger Dimitri Rassam Aton Soumache Jonathan Vanger Alexis Vonarb |
| Written by | Juan Diego Solanas |
| Starring |
Jim Sturgess Kirsten Dunst |
| Music by |
Benoît Charest Sigur Rós |
| Cinematography | Pierre Gill |
| Edited by | Dominique Fortin Paul Jutras |
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Onyx Films
Studio 37 |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. (France) Icon Entertainment International (UK) Millennium Entertainment (USA) |
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Running time
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107 minutes |
| Country | France Canada |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $50 million |
| Box office | $8,106,475 |
Upside Down (French: Un monde à l'envers) is a 2012 Canadian-French romantic fantasy written and directed by Juan Diego Solanas, starring Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst.
The film starts with Adam telling the story of his two-planet home world, unique from other planets or planetary systems as it is the only one that has "dual gravity". This phenomenon of dual gravity allows the two planets to orbit each other in what would otherwise be impossibly close proximity. There are three immutable laws of gravity for this two-planet system:
The societies of the two worlds are segregated by law. While the upper world (Up Top) is rich and prosperous, the lower (Down Below) is poor. Up Top buys cheap oil from Down Below and sells electricity back to Down Below at higher prices. A person from Down Below going Up Top (or having contact with anyone from Up Top) is strictly forbidden and can be punishable by incarceration or death. People from Up Top regularly visit Down Below to experience novelties like dancing on ceilings. The only physical connection linking the two worlds is the headquarters of the "TransWorld" company.
Adam lives in an orphanage in Down, having lost his parents in an oil refinery explosion. The only living relative he has is his great-aunt, whom he visits every week. His great-aunt has a secret recipe for flying pancakes using pollen from pink bees which gather pollen from both worlds. The recipe has passed through generations and will be inherited by Adam.
As a child, Adam secretly climbs a mountain that gets very close to Up. There he meets Eden, a girl from Up. Years later in their teens, they are in a relationship. They meet on the mountains and Adam uses a rope to pull Eden towards Down, and they head to the woods for a stroll. They are later discovered, and while Adam frantically releases Eden back to her world, he catches a bullet in his arm and drops her. Helpless, he watches Eden lying motionless on the ground as blood oozes from her head. When he returns home, his aunt Becky is arrested and her home is put to the torch.
Ten years later, Adam is now working on creating an anti-gravity product using his great-aunt's recipe. The recipe allows matter to feel both gravitational fields at once. Adam is developing it as a cosmetic product for face-lifts. Then he sees Eden on TV and learns she is alive and works at TransWorld. He finally works out his formula and gets hired by TransWorld to develop the face-lift cream. Adam's plan is to find Eden in TransWorld. In his office he meets Bob, a TransWorld employee from Up who becomes his friend after he helps him obtain rare stamps from Down. Bob offers to help him contact Eden.
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