Stars at Noon
RELEASE DATE: TBA
| A24 | Release Date: TBA |
Starring:
Ben Safdie, Danny Ramirez, Hector Moreno, Joe Alwyn, John C. Reilly, Margaret Qualley, Monica Bartholomew, Nick Romano, Robin Duran, Sebastian Donoso, Stephan Proaño
Movie Facts:
- Winner of the Grand Prix (2nd place prize) at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
Summary:
A young American journalist stranded in present-day Nicaragua (Margaret Qualley) falls for an enigmatic Englishman (Joe Alwyn) who seems like her best chance of escape. She soon realizes, though, that he may be in even greater danger than she is. Adapted from the Denis Johnson's novel.
IndieWire
May 26, 2022
Denis, Andrew Litvack, and Léa Mysius’ dialogue is only strengthened by its occasional awkwardness, as it subsumes Trish and Daniel into the same disordered humidity that swamps the film around them. The frequent sex scenes become a dialogue of their own — the lovers feeling each other out in search of something they can actually trust.
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May 26, 2022
When chewing through some oddly phrased text, Qualley’s non-verbal tics offer twice the information with half the winces, making “Stars at Noon” sometimes feel like two films in one. There’s the paranoid thriller and the dreamlike dirge; a steamy drama and its feminist reappraisal; the work of a master with the promise of new kinks to iron out and maybe greater heights to which to soar.
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The Telegraph
May 26, 2022
May 26, 2022
The result – something like a female-fronted version of Antonioni’s The Passenger - isn’t likely to entirely satisfy anyone in either the arthouse or mainstream camps. But if taken as an oblique tropical reverie, the film definitely has pleasures to offer – not least an oddball but often riveting lead performance by Margaret Qualley.
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The Guardian
May 26, 2022
The Playlist
May 26, 2022
When you’re this good, the weakest entry in your filmography can still be largely inoffensive, far from fiasco territory. Even so, there’s only one person doing it like Claire Denis, and now we must wait even longer to be taken once more to the heights of insight, emotion, and style only she can reach.
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