Day Night Day Night

Released May 9, 2007

1h 34m

Drama

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67%

46 Reviews

Tomatometer

55%

2,500+ Ratings

Audience Score

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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Critics Consensus

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

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Bill Stamets

Chicago Sun-Times

Loktev creates a minimalist study of unfathomable faith.

Rated: 4/4

Aug 10, 2007

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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

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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

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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

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Dan Jardine

Apollo Guide

The Day of the Jackal meets The Rapture in a bathtub full of barbiturates.

Rated: 70/100

Jul 5, 2008

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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

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Audience Member

didn't care for the subject matter of this pic

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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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

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andrei d

Ciudat si terorizant

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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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

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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

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Julia Loktev

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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
Screenwriter: Julia Loktev
Distributor: IFC Films
Production Co: FaceFilm
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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