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Day Night Day Night

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67% Tomatometer 46 Reviews 55% Popcornmeter 2,500+ Ratings
An anonymous young woman arrives in Manhattan on a bus. She receives numerous calls on her cell phone and proceeds to a hotel room. Assisted by various handlers, she prepares for her mission: to detonate a bomb in Times Square. She walks the city streets, but the time of her attack -- and thus that of her own death -- remains unknown.

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Critics Consensus

Day Night Day Night is a minimalist drama that refuses to indulge in stereotypes, making it all the more realistic and chilling.

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Chris Chang Film Comment Magazine 06/17/2013
Viewers will find themselves asking "Why? Why? Why?" in a structural echo, perhaps, of the repetition in the film's title. Go to Full Review Bill Stamets Chicago Sun-Times 08/10/2007
4/4
Loktev creates a minimalist study of unfathomable faith. Go to Full Review Richard Porton Chicago Reader 08/10/2007
Unfortunately this portrait of a young woman on the eve of her first terrorist foray -- a bombing of Times Square -- replaces the knee-jerk patriotic bluster of Hollywood films with its own postmodern cliches. Go to Full Review Felicia Feaster Creative Loafing 01/29/2020
[A] beautifully executed but often thematically inert film that suggests a film-school project stretched to its conceptual limit. Go to Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 10/01/2008
C+
In the end, we're left just as much in the dark as we were in the beginning of the film as to what motivates such a young woman to give up her life. Go to Full Review Dan Jardine Apollo Guide 07/05/2008
70/100
The Day of the Jackal meets The Rapture in a bathtub full of barbiturates. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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11/09/2015 didn't care for the subject matter of this pic See more 10/12/2013 Harrowing in sections, but at the end I wished I'd known more about its protagonist, simply because it's so compelling that such a nice, polite person would be brought to this. Loktev's decision to distance us is more interesting to think about than to experience. See more andrei d @RT74856639 09/22/2013 Ciudat si terorizant See more 01/22/2013 What do you believe in? This film will have you asking that as well as other questions. What is faith, and what happens when what you believed to be true is not? A minimalist approach, great actors, and an engaging presentation. See more Jason K @RT15601334 12/28/2012 Understandably a well shot/wrote film but just fell short in keeping with a middle ground i thought. With the freedom to come up with a "real life" story, I felt they should have given the lead character that freedom to be more involved with the screentime instead of just reusing blank stares and quiet moments. See more 10/25/2012 A chiller of the finest degree, with a startlingly haunting performance from its criminally under discussed Luisa Williams. Loktev's vision is a minimalist approach to the narrative of a suicide bomber, so devote in her faith or perhaps so mental sick that she is willing to destroy herself and others. An incredibly taunt and naturalistic film that will leave you on the edge of your sit through most of the run time. See more Read all reviews
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Julia Loktev

Director

Luisa Williams

She

Josh Philip Weinstein

Commander

Gareth Saxe

Organizer

Nyambi Nyambi

Organizer

Yoo Teo

Driver

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Synopsis An anonymous young woman arrives in Manhattan on a bus. She receives numerous calls on her cell phone and proceeds to a hotel room. Assisted by various handlers, she prepares for her mission: to detonate a bomb in Times Square. She walks the city streets, but the time of her attack -- and thus that of her own death -- remains unknown.
Director
Julia Loktev
Producer
Julia Loktev, Melanie Judd, Jessica Levin
Screenwriter
Julia Loktev
Distributor
IFC Films
Production Co
FaceFilm, arte France Cinéma, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 9, 2007, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 19, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$31.8K
Runtime
1h 34m
Sound Mix
Dolby SRD
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