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Nocturama

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After planting bombs in the streets of Paris, a group of disillusioned young people spends a tense night holed up in a high-end department store.

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Nocturama uses an unorthodox perspective and repellent protagonists to offer sobering statements about modern society -- and deliver uniquely suspenseful entertainment.

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Lauren Carroll Harris Guardian 10/09/2017
Though director Bertrand Bonello's exacting vision of a Parisian terror plot is as stylised and tensely structured as a psychological thriller, the drama plays out with unnerving realism. Go to Full Review
Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune 09/07/2017
2.5/4
Much like Bonello's previous film, "Yves Saint Laurent," "Nocturama" revels in pure experience. But the sum total of its gliding abstractions is a mite brainless. Go to Full Review
J. R. Jones Chicago Reader 09/07/2017
4/4
You're in for the most suspenseful film to hit town all year. Go to Full Review
Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review 08/14/2024
4/4
Bonello does not construct a bomb-of-a-film but sets an intriguing, if often frighteningly beautiful minefield for his audience to navigate. Go to Full Review
Vadim Rizov Filmmaker Magazine 01/17/2023
To some (arguable) degree a shallow movie with a flippant/trivializing attitude, rejecting the default gravity granted its subject...it’s also a highly recommended, original and (this may seem like the wrong word, but it’s true) fun work. Go to Full Review
Dustin Chang ScreenAnarchy 07/17/2020
If the film is a parable of today's chaotic world, it's a weak one. Go to Full Review
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Wolfgang G 02/09/2023 Nocturama ist ein französisch-belgisch-deutsches Thriller-Drama von Bertrand Bonello. Eine Gruppe von jungen Erwachsenen, die sich überdrüssig von der Gesellschaft fühlen, planen einen terroristischen Anschlag, nach der Tat treffen sie sich in einem Luxuskaufhaus… Bertrand Bonello inszenierte die Geschichte mit minimalen Dialogen, und die Charaktere sind größtenteils in Bewegung und geben der Geschichte eine Tiefe und eine gewisse Schönheit… Die Charaktere haben den Anschein eine Aufgabe zu erfüllen und funktionieren wie ein Rädchen in einem Uhrwerk… Nocturama ist ein sehenswerter Film… See more 07/04/2022 Vapid, self-indulgent anti-establishment hipsters plot to murder lots of people and think they are saviors of some sort. Plenty of faux-intellectual anti-capitalism garbage we see thrown around all the time now. Tell me, how's that alternative worker's party working with Putin and the Ukraine? Or China's surveillance state and silencing religious and ethnic groups? See more 12/19/2020 Bertrand Bonello's Nocturama is certainly an ambitious project that attempts to introduce numerous characters who all have a particular participation and task to complete in order to pull-off a terror attack on the political and corporate establishments throughout Paris. Bonello's juggling of the characters and construction of events is hugely impressive indeed as he also introduces them hiding out in a shopping mall and indulging in the very consumerist and capitalist constructs that they seemingly proclaim to abhor. I wasn't entirely sure about the mixed messages but I found it sharply satirical and a biting polemic on our current socioeconomic system. See more 09/27/2018 Boring and pointless. Not much of a plot, and characters with no motivations. Only good part of the film was watching all the characters get iced in the end. Skip. See more 08/07/2018 While it's a slow start, Nocturama provides a rewarding film not through its plot nor its characters, but in its ironic and pointedly empty treatment of them. See more 07/05/2018 Would have been much higher rated not for the weak ending that detracts from the moments leading up to. Incredibly close to being a certified masterpiece yet falls short with a lazy ending that offers none of the intricacies of the previous two hours. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis After planting bombs in the streets of Paris, a group of disillusioned young people spends a tense night holed up in a high-end department store.
Director
Bertrand Bonello
Producer
Alice Girard, Edouard Weil
Screenwriter
Bertrand Bonello
Production Co
Arte France Cinema, Rectangle Productions
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 8, 2017
Runtime
2h 10m
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