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Black Night

2005 · 90 min

A slow, hypnotic plunge into perpetual night, dreamlike and unsettling, rewarding patience with strange, quiet dread.

Directed by
Olivier Smolders
Genres
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Starring
Fabrice Rodriguez, Yves-Marie Gnahoua, Marie Lecomte
Overview
In a world overtaken by eternal darkness, the buttoned down entomologist abandons his phantoms to embrace the unknown.

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Directed by
Olivier Smolders
Genres
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Starring
Fabrice Rodriguez, Yves-Marie Gnahoua, Marie Lecomte
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How it feels

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Tone
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • obsession
  • identity
  • madness
  • fate
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
near-future
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror5
Humour1
Realism4
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity8
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama, mystery, thriller, science fiction
Directed by
Olivier Smolders
Written by
Olivier Smolders
Starring
Fabrice Rodriguez, Yves-Marie Gnahoua, Marie Lecomte, Raymond Pradel
Music
Benjamin Schoos
Cinematography
Olivier Smolders, Philippe Bourgueil
Runtime
90 min
Country
Belgium
Languages
Russian, German, French

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