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  • 2022
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2022
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 39 m
A Night of Knowing Nothing

Summary Through fictional love letters found in a cupboard at the Film and Television Institute of India, we meet L, a film student writing to her estranged lover while he is away. Gradually we’re immersed in the drastic changes taking place at the school and in the lives of young people across the country as they take to the streets to protest ...

Directed By: Payal Kapadia

Written By: Himanshu Prajapati, Payal Kapadia

  • 2022
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2022
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 39 m

A Night of Knowing Nothing

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 9 Critic Reviews
87
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
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Summary Through fictional love letters found in a cupboard at the Film and Television Institute of India, we meet L, a film student writing to her estranged lover while he is away. Gradually we’re immersed in the drastic changes taking place at the school and in the lives of young people across the country as they take to the streets to protest ...

Directed By: Payal Kapadia

Written By: Himanshu Prajapati, Payal Kapadia

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 9 Critic Reviews
87
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Universal Acclaim Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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100
Feb 23, 2022
The movie expresses so much, so delicately, about precarious young hearts, the storm clouds of nationalist politics and, most of all, the possibility and necessity of artistic freedom.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW
91
Oct 5, 2021
This combination of lively image and mournful narration imbues the camera’s fly-on-the-wall perspective with a sense of melancholy. As life unfolds with verve and passion, the spectral narrator, L, exists at a remove, as if she were both present amidst the frolic, and distant from it, her heartbreak leaving her unable to get involved.
By Siddhant Adlakha FULL REVIEW
90
Apr 5, 2022
Only a few seconds into Payal Kapadia’s shimmery, poetic essay doc A Night of Knowing Nothing, it feels like we are a few hours deep into the excavation of someone else’s memories.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW
83
Feb 9, 2022
Through its slippery cinematic language and elusive point-of-view, Kapadia depicts a moment happening urgently in the film’s present-day strand––a wave of anti-government student protests and their resulting crackdown––and treats it like memory, which we know operates as anything but a direct mental recording device.
By David Katz FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 4, 2022
Love for the moving image – and love for artistic creativity – marches hand in hand with the fight for political freedom.
By Phuong Le FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 9, 2022
Because of Kapadia’s collage-like approach, A Night Of Knowing Nothing occasionally feels loose and shapeless. But there is a discernible trajectory here.
By Lawrence Garcia FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 10, 2021
Right from its opening frame, there’s a lyrical, dreamlike quality to Payal Kapadia’s debut feature.
By Aparita Bhandari FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
6.9
71% Positive
5 Ratings
0% Mixed
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29% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
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29% Negative
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Production Company Petit Chaos, Another Birth, Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), IDFA Bertha Fund, Ciclic-Region Centre-Val de Loire
Release Date Feb 11, 2022
Duration 1 h 39 m
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Awards

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 4 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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