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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: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
05/19/07
Los Angeles Daily News

Day Night Day Night has captured viewers' attention around the world for its remarkable craftsmanship, technical command and distinctive vision.

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05/10/07
Andrew O'Hehir
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
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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

Loktev still deserves much credit for taking on a potentially unrewarding project with such brio and skill.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
05/08/07
Chris Barsanti
Chris Barsanti
Film Journal International

never gives us a simple why

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

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

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

I’m frankly flummoxed about what Day Night Day Night adds up to, but its 'You Are There' allure is potent.

Full Review Source: New York Magazine | comment Comment
05/07/07
David Edelstein
David Edelstein
New York Magazine
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...there's something strangely fascinating about all of this...

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04/21/07
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

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

This is Filmmaking!

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

A scary and gripping drama that follows an earnest young suicide bomber on her mission to Times Square.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
04/24/07
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

Amazing how a no-budget movie with no music, celebrity actors, production design, explosions, witty dialogue, can create so much tension!

Full Review Source: Compuserve | comment Comment
05/01/07
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

You spend the film wondering and speculating, looking for clues, and watching carefully.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
09/13/06
Howie Movshovitz
Howie Movshovitz
Hollywood Reporter

Terror is existential in this highly intelligent, somewhat sadistic, totally fascinating movie.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
05/08/07
J. Hoberman
J. Hoberman
Village Voice
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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.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
05/09/07
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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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

Essential viewing.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
04/14/07
Jim Hemphill
Jim Hemphill
Reel.com

[Director] Loktev provokes in her audience an involuntary shudder, because we realize that whether an act is madness or inspiration really depends on what side you're on.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
05/10/07
John Anderson
John Anderson
Newsday
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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
 
 
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