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A deconstruction of process. Observe as everything goes according to plan and watch as inevitability winds down like an alarm clock, enclosing success and failure in a vast, single environment, where death floats over as specter to the very consumerist fascination in which these youth embrace. Astounding cinema, with indelible musical cues, spatial magnificence, and a total horror display of an ending being only a few of its endless contradictory pleasures. A must-must-must see.

Sort like a French rework of Van Sant’s Elephant with the obsession with death and youthful waste replaced by an obsession with been fashionable. The political limits of current cinema love for surface abstraction laid bare. The empty out surface is the point, but it often feels little more than a cowardly retreat in face of a country psychosis.

“We did what we had to do,” argues one of the beautiful terrorist teens in Bertrand Bonello’s “Nocturama,” a vague and intriguingly inert thriller that waits 50 minutes before revealing “what they had to do” and never bothers explaining why they had to do it. It’s hypnotic all the same. Fresh off his emotionally extravagant biopic of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, Bonello has returned with another film about the seductive power of surfaces. With his previous project, he presented that idea as his subject — with this one, he sublimates it directly into his style. The result is a portrait of radical violence that has almost no resemblance to terrorism as we know it, and yet sometimes feels all more accurate because of that.

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Hop up out the bed turn my swag on
Pay no attention to them haters cause we whip 'em off
And we ain't doing nothing wrong
So don't tell me nothing, I'm just tryna have fun
So keep the party jumping

L'AUBE DES MORTS

This one is for sure a very slow burner. But the tension does build up towards the middle and again at the end.

I enjoyed the story and how it was edited. There was a lot of cuts to before "the job" that I think were well executed. Towards the ending I liked how they edited the sequences. No spoilers 😂.

Omar you stupid fucking idiot

paradise

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Like shot a vodka, hard to enjoy in the first take then overjoyed later on. Trying to seems Kubrick’s Clockwork but far from the idol. Nice try, folks.

Logistics!

Very gripping film about a group of disillusioned young people, most of whom I imagine are between the ages of 17 and 24, who procede to carry out multiple acts of terrorism against their own country of France. You get to know these people a little, not alot. You don’t really know what they think and why they think it hut that’s ok. Still very interesting to watch play out.

There’s a clunky flashback sequence that occurs about 20 or so minutes in that doesn’t work. It attempts to explain hownall these people came together but its just confusing. Some odd editing in this that takes us forward in the narrative only to rewind and go back through the same moment from a dfferent perspective. It’s not necessary.

Strong acting and direction and scoring.

Segundo bluff en pocos días. No acabé satisfecho con la última película de Pawel Pawlikowski y ahora mismo tengo los mismos sentimientos con "Nocturama", la última película de Bertrand Bonello y que tenía pendiente desde hacia un tiempo.
Tras su visionado, no puedo parar de acordarme de magníficas propuestas anteriores del cineasta y de cómo este ha caído en las redes del "cine de autor" melifluo con ínfulas de dar respuestas a preguntas planteadas y acabar triplicando el número de ellas para, tras finalizar el film, acabar de la misma forma que a lo largo de él, confuso y decepcionado.

It’s got some noteworthy scenes (particularly the moment that juxtaposes Willow’s “Whip My Hair” with footage of the terrorist attack’s aftermath and the kids watching slowly realizing the magnitude of what they’ve done) but the structure of the film is distractingly strange. It’s got a climatic shootout that is simultaneously thrilling and frustrating; I think that’s a good way to sum up the whole movie too.