And we’ve seen what a late-night viewing of Love Is Blind can do. After all, that’s why things like The Bachelor work so well. Many friends have told me they’re hesitant to watch a movie during these hours because they don’t have the mental capacity to follow along. My brain is completely fried from a long day, and movies to fall asleep to are the only solution. I’m beat, sure, but not quite ready to pass out either. Even the in-movie audience can’t look away.There’s a certain level of tiredness that overcomes me in the hours between the end of the work day and going to bed. “Jardin routinely uses the surrounding environment in inventive ways, including a scene in which Vincent slides across the kitchen floor on his back, dodging a pole-wielding assailant by opening up one drawer after another while the curious kitchen staff watches.
“Jardin’s energizing action choreography includes multiple trips across a dense crowd of drunken clubgoers, leading Vincent at one point to bust a move to ‘Another One Bites the Dust’ in order to blend in and evade his enemies,” wrote Eric Kohn in his review after catching it at Fantastic Fest. This all occurs within the first few minutes the rest of the film is one long extended action sequence that takes place in one crazy night. If the preview’s anything to go by, this looks like one hell of a ride.ĭirected by Frédéric Jardin, “ Sleepless Night” centers on a seemingly corrupt cop Vincent (Tomer Sisley) whose attempt to steal a bag of coke leads to the kidnapping of his teenage son. Hot off the heels of the acclaimed Indonesian action-packed “The Raid: Redemption” doing stellar business in limited release, the trailer for France’s breathless action yarn “Sleepless Night has landed. If this weekend’s indie box-office taught us anything, it’s that action fans have no problem with subtitles.
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