Recommended for Mature Audiences Only
This film contains scenes of graphic violence. Viewer discretion is advised.
Saturday, July 15 | 8 pm
One of the most accomplished, original, and provocative thrillers in years—so much so that the Cannes Film Festival controversially passed on screening the film last spring—Nocturama follows a group of young French radicals as they coordinate and execute a series of simultaneous terrorist attacks early one random evening in Paris. Ultra fluid and invigorating throughout what will prove the film’s opening half— which leads inexorably toward the fateful 7:15 hour—Nocturama subsequently switches settings and narrative gears as the young men and women attempt to escape the police dragnet by hiding out in an empty Parisian department store after hours. Directed by major French auteur Bertrand Bonello (House of Tolerance, Saint Laurent), Nocturama incites by avoiding the facts of recent acts of terror in the French capital, opting instead to portray the mass violence as an economic inevitability. In an exceedingly strong year for French cinema, Nocturama is an absolute highlight.
Director Bertrand Bonello | 2016 | In French with English subtitles | 130 minutes | NR | DCP
