Nocturama

Name: Nocturama
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: August 11, 2017
Duration: 130 min
Rating: 71
Cast: Finnegan Oldfield, Hamza Meziani, Ilias Le Doré, Jamil McCraven, Laure Valentinelli

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Grasshopper Film | Release Date: August 11, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Finnegan Oldfield, Hamza Meziani, Ilias Le Doré, Jamil McCraven, Laure Valentinelli, Manal Issa, Martin Petit-Guyot, Rabah Nait Oufella, Robin Goldbronn, Vincent Rottiers

Summary: The new film by Bertrand Bonello (Saint Laurent, House of Pleasures) is a terrorism thriller like no other, recalling Robert Bresson’s The Devil, Probably as much as it does George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead. We first follow a group of tense, shifty adolescents as they prowl the streets and subways of Paris, learning through carefullyThe new film by Bertrand Bonello (Saint Laurent, House of Pleasures) is a terrorism thriller like no other, recalling Robert Bresson’s The Devil, Probably as much as it does George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead. We first follow a group of tense, shifty adolescents as they prowl the streets and subways of Paris, learning through carefully delineated sequences that they’re already well underway with a bombing plot. And then it becomes something familiar, yet altogether different, as these subversives tuck away inside a shopping mall and lose themselves in consumer culture — clothes, televisions, toys, and a stirring soundtrack that includes Blondie, Chief Keef, Shirley Bassey, Bonello’s menacing electronic score, and Willow Smith. Will they survive the unseen, encroaching authorities? Or, as the walls close in, will they even survive each other? Nocturama presents no easy answers; what it does offer is one of the 21st century’s most stirring cinematic experiences. [Grasshopper Film]… Expand

Director: Bertrand Bonello

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 130 min

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Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Aug 10, 2017

The film is a masterstroke of synthesis; whatever it borrows, it makes its own. Read full review

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Clayton Dillard

Aug 6, 2017

Bertrand Bonello constructs a clear-eyed sense of how technology keeps getting closer and closer to replacing human consciousness. Read full review

The Film Stage Nick Newman

Sep 9, 2016

As much as I admire Nocturama (answer: an awful lot), locating exact points of admiration proves difficult when its pleasures are so purposefully alienating and bitter. Read full review

Melissa Anderson

Aug 10, 2017

The film mesmerizes and alienates equally. Read full review

The Playlist Oliver Lyttelton

Oct 14, 2016

Even if the film isn’t entirely to my taste, it’s a provocative and powerfully made piece of work. Read full review

Jordan Mintzer

Sep 8, 2016

As a portrait of French youth ridden by angst and anger toward the powers that be...Nocturama makes an intriguingly cinematic case for showing over telling. But as a depiction of how, and why, terrorists (or anarchists or whatever they are) can take down a city, it falls apart in the face of what happens in the real world. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Aug 10, 2017

Without a real-world correlative for the actions it depicts, Bertrand Bonello’s new film would merely be tedious and pretentious rather than repellent. Read full review

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Marakai

Dec 18, 2020

Bertrand Bonello’s Nocturama is certainly an ambitious project that attempts to introduce numerous characters who all have a particular participation and task to complete in order to pull-off a terror attack on the political and corporate establishments throughout Paris. Bonello’s jugglingBertrand Bonello’s Nocturama is certainly an ambitious project that attempts to introduce numerous characters who all have a particular participation and task to complete in order to pull-off a terror attack on the political and corporate establishments throughout Paris. Bonello’s juggling of the characters and construction of events is hugely impressive indeed as he also introduces them hiding out in a shopping mall and indulging in the very consumerist and capitalist constructs that they seemingly proclaim to abhor. I wasn’t entirely sure about the mixed messages but I found it sharply satirical and a biting polemic on our current socioeconomic system.… Expand

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JLuis_001

Jul 4, 2021

There are certain things that don't have the necessary finesse considering the premise, but the tension is very good, and it keeps you interested until its conclusion, which is already an essential achievement.

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