One night: successful drama for Karin Viard and Alex Lutz (review)
The director of Guy returns with a dating story that rings true, co-written with his playing partner.
Paris, crowded metro, an evening like any other.
A woman pushes a man, they argue. Very quickly the electric current transforms… into burning desire. The two strangers get out of the train and make love in a photo booth.
The night now belongs to them.
In this Paris with deserted streets and long hours, will we have to say goodbye?
Released last summer in cinemas, A night will be broadcast this evening on Canal +. First strongly recommends it to you: after having already amazed the editorial staff thanks to guy, Alex Lutz succeeds once again by recounting the meeting between two beings in crisis. So that this film sticks as closely as possible to reality, he co-wrote it with his playing partner, Karin Viard. Here is our review.
A crowded subway. A stampede. The tone that rises between a man and a woman before this tense verbal ping-pong shifts into an irresistible surge of desire and this forty-something goes from calling names to a passionate embrace in a photo booth . Thus begins the new feature film by Alex Lutz, co-written with his co-performer Karin Viard, which tells the story of a night as an escape from the little worries of everyday life. A night to remake the world, confess one’s past stories, live intensely in the present without necessarily projecting oneself into the future.
It’s funny, lively, moving while providing, without ever pontificating, an overview of today’s male-female relationships. But its final double twist (which we will obviously not reveal) would have benefited from being skipped as it puts this enchanted parenthesis back into a logic that is too down-to-earth.
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