2021
TV-MA
Super LTD
1 h 40 m

2021
TV-MA
Super LTD
1 h 40 m

Summary Filmed over three years on the borders between Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria and Lebanon, Notturno captures the everyday life that lies behind the continuing tragedy of civil wars, ferocious dictatorships, foreign invasions and the murderous apocalypse of ISIS.

Documentary

Directed By: Gianfranco Rosi

Written By: Gianfranco Rosi

2021
TV-MA
Super LTD
1 h 40 m

2021
TV-MA
Super LTD
1 h 40 m

Notturno

Name: Notturno
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-01-22
Duration: 1 min 40 s
Rating: 75

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 21 Critic Reviews

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Generally Favorable Based on 21 Critic Reviews

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Generally Favorable Based on 21 Critic Reviews

90% Positive
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Original-Cin

Mar 1, 2021

Oddly, in spite of all the pain, what sticks in Rosi’s Notturno is a feeling of resilience.

By Karen Gordon FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Jan 21, 2021

The past two decades of documentary film have produced many anatomies of history that attempt to summarize several millenniums, but Rosi’s borderless tableaus bring out another kind of truth in faces, places and pure feeling.

By Nicolas Rapold FULL REVIEW

CineVue

Mar 22, 2021

Notturno is a snapshot – in a patchwork of disparate vignettes – that captures the effects of trauma inflicted on and hardships lived by the civilian population.

By Matthew Anderson FULL REVIEW

Rolling Stone

Jan 29, 2021

Notturno is not journalism. Yet from its very outset it raises the same questions about itself and its own making, about the film’s ability to show what it shows, because what it shows is often so immediately intimate — private to the point of making a viewer want to avert their eyes.

By K. Austin Collins FULL REVIEW

Los Angeles Times

Jan 28, 2021

Of course, our desire to know more may be the aim in his making art out of civilization’s rubble — that he can get us to pay attention through the sheer majesty of how he pays attention, hopefully making for true engagement, not mere spectating. Still, sometimes you just want more than what you’re given. That’s human too.

By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW

Austin Chronicle

Jan 22, 2021

Rosi seeks to give glimpses of insight, to find emotional truths in the mother keening in the prison cell where her son died, and the courting couple who comment on the imminent rain but ignore the distant sound of machine gun fire. To fill in the contextual gaps would damage those truths, but to leave them inevitably will leave the audience questioning what's outside of his frame.

By Richard Whittaker FULL REVIEW

Screen Rant

Jan 28, 2021

Notturno is sometimes beautiful and Rosi makes good use of private spaces. But, the film comes off as an exploitation of the region and its people’s pain.

By Mae Abdulbaki FULL REVIEW

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Production Company 21 Unofilm, Stemal Entertainment, Les Films d'Ici, No Nation Films, Mizzi Stock Entertainment, Rai Cinema, Arte France Cinéma, Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo (MiBACT), Eurimages, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

Release Date Jan 22, 2021

Duration 1 h 40 m

Rating TV-MA

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Awards

Venice Film Festival

• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US

• 3 Nominations

Seville European Film Festival

• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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