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04/23/09
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... [More]
Starring: Luisa Williams, Josh Phillip Weinstein, Gareth Saxe, Nyambi Nyambi
Director: Julia Loktev
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Reviews for Day Night Day Night
All in all, it’s a creepy subject for a movie -- especially when there is no payoff at the end.
05/23/07
Top CriticIn 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.
10/01/08
Like United 93, Day Night Day Night exploits our post-9/11 anxieties.
03/10/07
Overly reliant on a weak lead performance, it drags so much that you’re left almost wanting the bomb to go off.
10/30/06
Day Night Day Night brings plenty of shakycam immediacy and a cute face to what seems to be zero point of view.
05/10/07
The audience learns everything [director] Loktev is willing to reveal about her central character within the first 20 of her 94-minute film.
05/08/07
By taking such a detached perspective on the girl's quest, the entire project is reduced to an exercise in inconsequential imagination.
05/09/07
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?
05/12/07
A stunt masquerading as a statement.
05/09/07
Top CriticThe kind of movie that is far more interesting and edifying to read about and discuss than it is to actually sit through.
08/10/07
In striving to nail down every excruciating detail of how an attack might take place, Loktev squanders forward momentum.
07/18/07
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.
08/10/07
DAY NIGHT DAY NIGHT has an intriguing premise but I did feel that the filmmaker failed to deliver on her intentions.
05/07/07
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05/19/07
Loktev creates a minimalist study of unfathomable faith.
08/10/07
Loktev still deserves much credit for taking on a potentially unrewarding project with such brio and skill.
05/08/07
never gives us a simple why
05/10/07
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.
05/30/07
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