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Day Night Day Night
IFC Films
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Luisa Williams,
Josh Phillip Weinstein,
Gareth Saxe,
Nyambi Nyambi,
Tschi Hun Kim,
Annemarie Lawless,
and
Frank Dattolo
A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. (IFC First Take)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Julia Loktev
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Julia Loktev
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: May 9, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
94 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / Germany / France |
Prix Regards Jeune (Directors' Fortnight), 2006 Cannes Film Festival; Someone to Watch Award (Julia Loktev), 2007 Independent Spirit Awards

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100
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Astonishing.

90
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Terror is existential in this highly intelligent, somewhat sadistic, totally fascinating movie.

80
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
The film is, in fact, a cunning exercise in subjectivity and withheld information--and once you accept those parameters, it’s riveting.

75
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Offers a chillingly effective look at the ease with which a suicide bomber could wreak havoc on U.S. soil - specifically in Times Square.

75
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Why has She chosen to end her young life with a senseless act of mass murder? We never find out - which is a good thing. Too much information would only get in the way and lessen this compelling film's evocation of dread.

63
TV Guide
Ken Fox
In the end, despite Williams' extraordinary, nearly wordless performance, it's impossible to fathom what this young woman is experiencing at her moment of crisis, because we never knew what could have brought her to such a desperate pass in the first place.

60
The Hollywood Reporter
Howie Movshovitz
Shows tremendous control and discipline, especially for a young filmmaker on her first feature. Director Julia Loktev might be working on a profoundly low budget, but her camera work and lighting are precise and imaginative.

60
Variety
Justin Chang
Context and psychological insight are the major casualties of Day Night Day Night, a dramatically limited but strangely powerful portrait of a young would-be terrorist.

50
Chicago Reader
Richard M. Porton
Unlike the Dardennes or the best practitioners of political cinema, Loktev possesses almost zero political acumen, and her film ends up resembling nothing more than a well-calibrated performance piece, as vacuous as its confused protagonist.

50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Noel Murray
Loktev's efforts to universalize this story by avoiding specifics ends up making Day Night Day Night broad and blank, reducing the lead character to one more generic nutcase for us to fear and pity.

50
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Maddeningly, purposefully evasive.

50
Los Angeles Times
John Anderson
The most profound thing the remarkably dread-filled drama Day Night Day Night tells us is what it doesn't tell us.

42
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
A stunt masquerading as a statement.

40
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
The movie charts a journey from belief to despair with occasional touches of humor, but by the end I was so deadened by its minimalist style and method, I could barely summon the energy to ask why.


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