Synopsis
Clara and Nikolai meet at a sweat-soaked rave and end their night at his apartment. The first part of the film is an erotic and candid portrait of their lovemaking. When Clara tries to sneak out without saying goodbye, this typical hookup takes an unexpected turn...
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Cast
- Dimitri StorogeNikolaï
- Catherine de LéanClara
- Véronique RebizovChild #1
- Raphaël BoulangerChild #2
- Mika PluvioseChild #3
- Maïsa BastienChild #4
Recommendations
- 75
Slant Magazine
It works--quite successfully, in places--as a warming tonic against this emotional nippiness of the cinema of Canadian coldness. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
Here's the thing: This movie would be easy to mock as maudlin and self-important, but there's something about it that can't be dismissed. The monologues may be theatrical and presentational - director Anne Emond made this film when she was 29 and too young to be subtle. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Anne Émond's quietly raw Nuit #1 begins as a highbrow sex film but quickly becomes something much more interesting. - 70
The New York Times
Their eloquent monologues, interspersed with vicious verbal skirmishes, are artfully constructed, occasionally poetic expressions of pain, delivered in well-formed sentences that suggest the movie might have originated as a two-person stage drama. - 60
Time Out
Both de Léan and Storoge give you peeks at the genuine anguish lurking underneath the characters' narcissistic bluffing and porno posturing, even if the script drowns their best moments in verbosity. - 60
Village Voice
First-time feature director Anne Émond's Nuit #1 lingers on the combination of hunger and awkwardness that attends the best one-nighters, showing the unsexy details that most movies elide. - 60
Los Angeles Times
Like the relationship she has chosen to dissect, the film is promising, disappointing, touching or frustrating, depending on the moment. - 58
The A.V. Club
Courageous performances from the leads, who have to bear a lot, both emotionally and physically, still can't transform their characters into more than just symbols for contemporary urban loneliness.
