Nocturama
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MOVIE CATEGORY
After placing some bombs around Paris, a group of young activists shut themselves in a big department store, closed by night. Written in 2011 with the title Paris est une fête, Nocturama does not want to be a report of reality, as scary as it may seems, but instead it wants to catch the ideological ambiguity of a time by meticulously recreating an abstract revolution. The direction, imagined as a dreamy thriller inspired by Hollywood genre movies, shows a rebellion of young people which are ruined by their own consumerist contradictions. Their night refuge becomes a lunapark of unsettling poetry, where they must face the ghosts of their own meaninglessness.
DIRECTORY
Bertrand Bonello was born in 1968. His first feature-length film, Quelque chose d’organique (1998), was presented at the Berlinale (Panorama section). Le pornographe (2001) was presented at the Cannes Critics’ Week and won the FIPRESCI award. Tiresia (2003) was in competition in Cannes. Quinzaine des Réalisateurs presented De la guerre in 2008. L’Apollonide – Souvenirs de la maison close (2011) was part of the main competition in Cannes and was nominated to eight César awards. Saint Laurent (2014), in competition in Cannes as well, represented France at the Oscars and received ten nominations to César awards. After Nocturama (2016), Zombi Child (2019) was screened at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, and Coma premiered in Berlinale 2022 where it received the FIPRESCI award.
