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Day Night Day Night

Released May 9, 2007 1h 34m Drama List
67% Tomatometer 46 Reviews 55% Popcornmeter 2,500+ Ratings
An anonymous young woman arrives in Manhattan on a bus. She receives numerous calls on her cell phone and proceeds to a hotel room. Assisted by various handlers, she prepares for her mission: to detonate a bomb in Times Square. She walks the city streets, but the time of her attack -- and thus that of her own death -- remains unknown.

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

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Chris Chang Film Comment Magazine Viewers will find themselves asking "Why? Why? Why?" in a structural echo, perhaps, of the repetition in the film's title. Jun 17, 2013 Full Review Bill Stamets Chicago Sun-Times Loktev creates a minimalist study of unfathomable faith. Rated: 4/4 Aug 10, 2007 Full Review Richard Porton Chicago Reader 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. Aug 10, 2007 Full Review Felicia Feaster Creative Loafing [A] beautifully executed but often thematically inert film that suggests a film-school project stretched to its conceptual limit. Jan 29, 2020 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 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. Rated: C+ Oct 1, 2008 Full Review Dan Jardine Apollo Guide The Day of the Jackal meets The Rapture in a bathtub full of barbiturates. Rated: 70/100 Jul 5, 2008 Full Review Read all reviews

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laurie s It wasn't exactly gripping. The first 30 minutes were taken up with personal hygiene, there was no need for her co-conspirators to wear masks and the rest of the film dragged on. A waste of time. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member didn't care for the subject matter of this pic Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Harrowing in sections, but at the end I wished I'd known more about its protagonist, simply because it's so compelling that such a nice, polite person would be brought to this. Loktev's decision to distance us is more interesting to think about than to experience. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review andrei d Ciudat si terorizant Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Frances H This girl in the film is really what I would expect a suicide bomber to be--a mentally disturbed and very malleable girl child who is scared being manipulated by a group of older men too cowardly to do their dirty work themselves, because they are too important to their cause in their own estimation, always such a good excuse. That she is disturbed is shown in their way she compulsively cleans herself, which also shows that she doesn't really believe she will really be gone, as kids her age don't, and that she is doing this in the first place. That she is scared shows in her extreme meekness and politeness, her blinking eyes, her fetal postures, peeing herself. The men's cowardice shows in the way they let her do this, their wearing the masks around her, and putting the blind folds on her. All the other terrorists are older than she is. The only thing that surprised me was that all the speaking voice accents, including hers, are distinctly American. It is a very effective film, and nothing of this type had been attempted before of which I had ever heard. The very lack of any emotion in all of the film but the last twenty minutes makes it very chilling, and that is a plus--one would not want to glorify such intent. Only a selfishly childlike person could mix with the people on the street who only try to help her and whom she asks for help and not consider that other peoples' lives are precious to them, even if she doesn't consider her own to be of any worth. Her childishness is also shown by her pizza, pretzel, candy apple last supper, her watching the barking dog toy, and calling her parents when the going gets rough. All of these factors make this film very moving emotionally for the thoughtful adult audience member. It is not an enjoyable film, but it is not meant to be. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 04/13/13 Full Review Audience Member What do you believe in? This film will have you asking that as well as other questions. What is faith, and what happens when what you believed to be true is not? A minimalist approach, great actors, and an engaging presentation. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis An anonymous young woman arrives in Manhattan on a bus. She receives numerous calls on her cell phone and proceeds to a hotel room. Assisted by various handlers, she prepares for her mission: to detonate a bomb in Times Square. She walks the city streets, but the time of her attack -- and thus that of her own death -- remains unknown.
Director
Julia Loktev
Producer
Julia Loktev, Melanie Judd, Jessica Levin
Screenwriter
Julia Loktev
Distributor
IFC Films
Production Co
FaceFilm, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), arte France Cinéma
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 9, 2007, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 19, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$31.8K
Runtime
1h 34m
Sound Mix
Dolby SRD
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