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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.
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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Reviews for Day Night Day Night
Day Night Day Night has captured viewers' attention around the world for its remarkable craftsmanship, technical command and distinctive vision.
All in all, it’s a creepy subject for a movie -- especially when there is no payoff at the end.
Loktev still deserves much credit for taking on a potentially unrewarding project with such brio and skill.
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.
The Day of the Jackal meets The Rapture in a bathtub full of barbiturates.
I’m frankly flummoxed about what Day Night Day Night adds up to, but its 'You Are There' allure is potent.
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.
It is small of scale, budget and even of intentions. But like any act of the unthinkable, it looms large in the imagination.
Like United 93, Day Night Day Night exploits our post-9/11 anxieties.
A scary and gripping drama that follows an earnest young suicide bomber on her mission to Times Square.
Overly reliant on a weak lead performance, it drags so much that you’re left almost wanting the bomb to go off.
Amazing how a no-budget movie with no music, celebrity actors, production design, explosions, witty dialogue, can create so much tension!
You spend the film wondering and speculating, looking for clues, and watching carefully.
Terror is existential in this highly intelligent, somewhat sadistic, totally fascinating movie.
Inspired by an actual event in her native Russia, current New Yorker Julia Loktev's Day Night Day Night offers a chillingly effective look at the ease with which a suicide bomber could wreak havoc on U.S. soil -- specifically in Times Square.
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