Nocturama
Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before to take shelter for a night in a shopping center.
3 December 1992, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
17 June 1986, France
1 January 1989, Paris, France
September 21, 2017
The film is a carefully constructed hall of mirrors within which Bonello shows us the horror of anger without empathy, and the state as the most terrifying player of all. It is a pitch black allegory for our time.
September 08, 2017
Exquisite cinema. A sly siren, Nocturama is narcotic phase, slow-burn haze, a shifty, shifting thriller inspecting terrorism and youth. A bombing plot, a dance of death... Another distracted, neglected, maligned generation.
August 28, 2017
The frivolity of the film's unexpressed political earnestness-Bonello's unwillingness to give voice to his or his characters' ideas-is matched by the emptiness of its aesthetic.
August 15, 2017
Nocturama might best be seen as a surrealist thought experiment.
August 11, 2017
You may not think that a movie that asks you to understand terrorists is for you, but if you give Bonello 130 minutes of your time, he'll make you a believer.
September 07, 2017
You're in for the most suspenseful film to hit town all year.
August 10, 2017
When the ruthless, faceless power of the state finally asserts itself, what is meant to be a shocking climax merits little more than a nod and a shrug.
August 14, 2017
It is at once damnable and debonair. It seduces as it repels.
September 17, 2017
Mesmerising and provocative... with a simply stunning command of his visceral visuals and unnerving mood.
August 14, 2017
Nocturama is a gut punch wrapped in a velvet glove; it's so intensely visceral and visually impressive that it short-circuits interpretation.
September 07, 2017
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.
August 17, 2017
Testing the viewer's position on who or what the victims are here is partly what makes Nocturama such a horribly exhilarating and rewarding piece of cinema.

