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Nocturna: Side A - The Great Old Man's Night

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Ulysses is a hundred-year-old man, he lives alone and is on the verge of death. The last night of his life, he will experience something that will force him to rethink his past, his present and his view about his reality.
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Adam Mullins-Khatib Chicago Reader 01/22/2022
The diptych films of Nocturna are at the very least an inventive imagining of an end-of-life story, capturing both the beauty and the melancholy that make up our memories. Go to Full Review Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times 01/18/2022
"Nocturna" weaves memory and nightmare into a haunting tale of loneliness and regret. Go to Full Review Anton Bitel Sight & Sound 08/24/2021
Falling somewhere between Michael Haneke's Amour (2012) and Florian Zeller's The Father (2020), and playing hide and seek with the emotions, this long, dark night of the soul sends Ulises on a mystical round-trip home to his long-lost wife and family Go to Full Review Erick Estrada Cinegarage 07/13/2022
A small map that explores certain possibilities that's reminiscent of Relic. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Keri O'Shea Warped Perspective 01/17/2022
The film offers up a terror of - and respect for - the vulnerability of old age, its recriminations and regrets, and it finds varied and unsettling ways to explore a 'dark night of the soul'. Go to Full Review Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews 01/14/2022
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Calzada has uncannily made his film itself appear haunted, the whole cloaked in a greenish tinge of decay, Ulises's paternal guilt weighing heavily upon him. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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02/05/2022 On the last night of an elderly man's life we witness through flashbacks how he came to be in such a bleak state. Pepe Soriano is brilliant as Ulises, the old man who is losing his memory but not his regrets. There are several chilling moments although not what you would typically expect in a horror. The horror is more of a quiet type, but does play on a fear that most of us have, of growing old and struggling to take care of ourselves and wishing that we could go back to right our wrongs. See more Read all reviews
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Gonzalo Calzada

Director

Marina Artigas

Mamá de Ulises

Pepe Soriano

Ulises

Lautaro Delgado Tymruk

Daniel

Mora González Della Vecchia

Dalia (Child)

Jenaro Nouet

Ulises (Child)
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Synopsis Ulysses is a hundred-year-old man, he lives alone and is on the verge of death. The last night of his life, he will experience something that will force him to rethink his past, his present and his view about his reality.
Director
Gonzalo Calzada
Screenwriter
Gonzalo Calzada, Gonzalo Calzada
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language
Spanish
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 21, 2022
Runtime
1h 44m
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