Synopsis
Paris, one morning. A group of young people from different backgrounds. They launch into a strange ballet in the metro tunnels and the city's streets. They seem to follow a plan. Their gestures are precise, almost dangerous. They converge towards the same point, a department store, at the moment it is about to shut. Night begins.
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Cast
- Finnegan OldfieldDavid
- Vincent RottiersGreg
- Hamza MezianiYacine
- Manal IssaSabrina
- Laure ValentinelliSarah
- Martin Petit-GuyotAndré
- Jamil McCravenMika
- Rabah Nait OufellaOmar
- Ilias Le DoréSamir
- Robin GoldbronnFred
Recommendations
- 100
Slant Magazine
Bertrand Bonello constructs a clear-eyed sense of how technology keeps getting closer and closer to replacing human consciousness. - 100
The A.V. Club
The film is a masterstroke of synthesis; whatever it borrows, it makes its own. - 91
The Film Stage
As much as I admire Nocturama (answer: an awful lot), locating exact points of admiration proves difficult when its pleasures are so purposefully alienating and bitter. - 90
Screen Daily
The protagonists are pathetic yet see themselves as bold and daring and in this Bonello has captured something about the present moment that rings absolutely true. - 90
Variety
Bonello replies to the news with a magnetic and purely cinematic gesture. - 75
The Playlist
Even if the film isn’t entirely to my taste, it’s a provocative and powerfully made piece of work. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
As a portrait of French youth ridden by angst and anger toward the powers that be...Nocturama makes an intriguingly cinematic case for showing over telling. But as a depiction of how, and why, terrorists (or anarchists or whatever they are) can take down a city, it falls apart in the face of what happens in the real world. - 67
IndieWire
It’s fine that Bonello would rather raise unsettling questions than provide unhelpful answers, but his inquiry often feels every bit as confused as his characters. Nocturama is enthralling until the bitter end, but it’s so hard to distill its purpose that you can’t tell if the film is opaque or if it simply offers nothing to see.
