Day Night Day Night

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Day Night Day Night

2007

1h 34m

Drama

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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.

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

06/17/2013

Viewers will find themselves asking "Why? Why? Why?" in a structural echo, perhaps, of the repetition in the film's title.

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Bill Stamets

Chicago Sun-Times

08/10/2007

4/4

Loktev creates a minimalist study of unfathomable faith.

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Richard Porton

Chicago Reader

08/10/2007

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.

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Felicia Feaster

Creative Loafing

01/29/2020

[A] beautifully executed but often thematically inert film that suggests a film-school project stretched to its conceptual limit.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

10/01/2008

C+

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.

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Dan Jardine

Apollo Guide

07/05/2008

70/100

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

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11/09/2015

didn't care for the subject matter of this pic

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10/12/2013

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.

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andrei d

09/22/2013

Ciudat si terorizant

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01/22/2013

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.

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Jason K

12/28/2012

Understandably a well shot/wrote film but just fell short in keeping with a middle ground i thought. With the freedom to come up with a "real life" story, I felt they should have given the lead character that freedom to be more involved with the screentime instead of just reusing blank stares and quiet moments.

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10/25/2012

A chiller of the finest degree, with a startlingly haunting performance from its criminally under discussed Luisa Williams. Loktev's vision is a minimalist approach to the narrative of a suicide bomber, so devote in her faith or perhaps so mental sick that she is willing to destroy herself and others. An incredibly taunt and naturalistic film that will leave you on the edge of your sit through most of the run time.

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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, arte France Cinéma, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)
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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