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Day Night Day Night

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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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Day Night Day Night brings plenty of shakycam immediacy and a cute face to what seems to be zero point of view.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
05/10/07
Joshua Rothkopf
Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York

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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[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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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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A stunt masquerading as a statement.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
05/09/07
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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Filmmaker Julia Loktev's taut, harrowing drama chronicles two days and nights of one of our darkest contemporary fears: a young woman who, for reasons never stated, decides to turn herself into a human bomb.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
05/09/07
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Too much information would only get in the way and lessen this compelling film's evocation of dread.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
05/09/07
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post

By taking such a detached perspective on the girl's quest, the entire project is reduced to an exercise in inconsequential imagination.

Full Review Source: Cinematical | comment Comment
05/09/07
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Cinematical

Day Night Day Night, a movie about a suicide bomber, may be serious, and it is certainly sure of itself. But it is also maddeningly, purposefully evasive.

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05/09/07
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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The audience learns everything [director] Loktev is willing to reveal about her central character within the first 20 of her 94-minute film.

Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com | comment Comment
05/08/07
Kent Turner
Kent Turner
Film-Forward.com

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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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

DAY NIGHT DAY NIGHT has an intriguing premise but I did feel that the filmmaker failed to deliver on her intentions.

Full Review Source: Murphy's Movie Reviews | comment Comment
05/07/07
Ted Murphy
Ted Murphy
Murphy's Movie Reviews

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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Shrouded by a haunting pall which permeates the picture throughout, the movie is more interested in examining the mindset of a maniacal Muslim with her finger on the trigger than with the plight of her potential victims.

Full Review Source: Denver Urban Spectrum | comment Comment
05/07/07
Kam Williams
Kam Williams
Denver Urban Spectrum

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

This is a movie that's better left unexplained, since part of what is so breathtaking is Loktev's strength as a storyteller and Williams's expressiveness as an actor.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
04/26/07
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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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

...there's something strangely fascinating about all of this...

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

Essential viewing.

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