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Day Night Day Night (2007)

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Reviews Counted:43

Fresh:30

Rotten:13

Average Rating:6.6/10

Consensus: Day Night Day Night is a minimalist drama that refuses to indulge in stereotypes, making it all the more realistic and chilling.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:May 11, 2007 Limited

Synopsis: A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with no accent; it's impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision -- she has... A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with no accent; it's impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision -- she has made it already. We don't know whom she represents, what she believes in - we only know she believes it absolutely. The film strips the story down to its existential core. It focuses on microscopic movements, the smallest gestures, an economy of banal details. Inspired in part by a story in a Russian newspaper and playing off a history of Joan of Arc films, the film transpires on the girl's face. The minimalism of the face is confronted with the visual and aural noise of the city. Faith comes face-to-face with the possibility of failure. --© IFC Films [More]

Starring: Luisa Williams, Josh Phillip Weinstein, Gareth Saxe, Nyambi Nyambi

Starring: Luisa Williams, Josh Phillip Weinstein, Gareth Saxe, Nyambi Nyambi, Tschi Hun Kim, Frank Dattolo, Annemarie Lawless

Director: Julia Loktev

Director: Julia Loktev
Screenwriter: Julia Loktev
Producer: Julia Loktev, Melanie Judd, Jessica Levin
Studio: IFC Films

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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
04/23/09
Peter Keough
Peter Keough
Boston Phoenix

In the end, we're left just as much in the dark as we were in the beginning of the film as to what motivates such a young woman to give up her life.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
10/01/08
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

The Day of the Jackal meets The Rapture in a bathtub full of barbiturates.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
07/05/08
Dan Jardine
Dan Jardine
Apollo Guide

den dikaiologei bebaia ton enthoysiasmo me ton opoio petaksan tis kilotes toys arketoi fanatikoi tis afairetikis kinimatografisis ana ton kosmo toy anaksartitoy, alla oyte prepei na perasei aparatiriti, esto kai san sporadika epityhimeni kai akribis.

Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | comment Comment
05/16/08
Joseph Proimakis
Joseph Proimakis
Movies for the Masses

It is small of scale, budget and even of intentions. But like any act of the unthinkable, it looms large in the imagination.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
09/20/07
Duane Dudek
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Loktev creates a minimalist study of unfathomable faith.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
08/10/07
Bill Stamets
Bill Stamets
Chicago Sun-Times
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Unfortunately this portrait of a young woman on the eve of her first terrorist foray -- a bombing of Times Square -- replaces the knee-jerk patriotic bluster of Hollywood films with its own postmodern cliches.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
08/10/07
Richard M. Porton
Richard M. Porton
Chicago Reader
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The kind of movie that is far more interesting and edifying to read about and discuss than it is to actually sit through.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
08/10/07
Peter Sobczynski
Peter Sobczynski
eFilmCritic.com

In striving to nail down every excruciating detail of how an attack might take place, Loktev squanders forward momentum.

Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
07/18/07
Phil Villarreal
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

For 94 mesmerizing, narratively minimalist minutes Russian born filmmaker Julia Loktev pushes post 9-11 buttons. The result is a masterfully crafted exercise in dread unlike anything you’re likely to have seen before.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
07/17/07
Rick Kisonak
Rick Kisonak
Film Threat

The film is beautifully built and has moments of terrifying tension. If it can't quite find a way to end, it nonetheless makes vivid work of the time it takes.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
06/08/07
Shawn Levy
Shawn Levy
Oregonian

An unflinching look, uncomfortably up close and personal, at a young woman determined to go through actions that we know must end badly.

Full Review Source: Salt Lake Tribune | comment Comment
06/01/07
Sean Means
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune

The film's format and style dictate that she has to hold our interest throughout, sometimes without dialogue.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
05/31/07
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Julia Loktev's movie never explains the suicide bomber or makes her strange in order to ease your own mind. Rather, it makes you nervous both for and about her.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
05/30/07
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

All in all, it’s a creepy subject for a movie -- especially when there is no payoff at the end.

Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
05/23/07
Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
05/19/07
Los Angeles Daily News

This is Filmmaking!

Full Review Source: Entertainment Insiders | comment Comment
05/19/07
Eric Lurio
Eric Lurio
Entertainment Insiders

For something completely different, controversial subject matter (New York bombing) combines with seamless set/surroundings to project a set of abstract images and a marginally successful experimental adventure.

Full Review Source: Monsters and Critics | comment Comment
05/15/07
Ron Wilkinson
Ron Wilkinson
Monsters and Critics

Efforts to universalize this story by avoiding specifics ends up making Day Night Day Night broad and blank, reducing the lead character to one more generic nutcase for us to fear and pity. And isn't the anonymity of bombers precisely the problem?

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
05/12/07
Noel Murray
Noel Murray
AV Club

never gives us a simple why

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
05/10/07
Chris Cabin
Chris Cabin
Filmcritic.com
 
 
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