Synopsis
It never ends.
An Iranian couple living in the US become trapped inside a hotel when insidious events force them to face the secrets that have come between them, in a night that never ends.
2020 ‘آن شب’ Directed by Kourosh Ahari
An Iranian couple living in the US become trapped inside a hotel when insidious events force them to face the secrets that have come between them, in a night that never ends.
Jeffrey Allard Armin Amiri Marcella Cortland Cheryl Dillard Staurulakis Kourosh Ahari Alex Bretow Mohammad Dormanesh Mohsen Dormanesh
An Shab, The Night (Aan Shab), The Hotel, The Night - Es gibt keinen Ausweg, 永夜, 더 나이트
While not taking anything away from the performances in this feature directorial debut from Kourosh Ahari, which are quite strong, particularly from Shahab Hosseini (A Separation), the bona fide star in The Night is the sound editing. It follows Iranian-American couple Babak (Hosseini) and Neda (Niousha Jafarian) along with their one-year-old daughter, who, after a night of drinks and dinner at a friends house, find themselves trapped, unable to leave a mysterious hotel that hungers for their secrets.
Maz Makhani's cinematography deliberately accentuates the hotel's unnatural presentation, boosting the film's general ambience as dark rooms and shadows become the dominant order of the day. The script utilises classic motifs of the horror genre, many of which are now unfortunately eligible…
Thanks to Film Independent for the screening of this movie. Its technical qualities are far and away where its strengths lie, utilizing many effective camera and framing tricks to create a claustrophobic, hellishly dreamlike sensation without distracting from the more simplistically creepy nature of what happens. As for the reasons why it’s happening, they do work, even though there isn’t anything that deep to it in the end. The film effectively conveys throughout how troubled this marriage is, but the payoff, while great on paper, is a little too simplistic in its execution to make all the time spent feel completely worthwhile. I do like the ending, though, and how it suggests that the real inescapable terror for the main…
Good atmosphere but just not particularly mysterious or creepy enough ... one of the reveals is also a on slippery slope of crossing into some tricky territory and I feel a little off put ... I’ll spoil it below for those who are curious
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So this woman is haunted by the fact that she an abortion and it’s not entirely clear to
Me if she haunted because she indeed did soemthing wrong and is being judged OR she just feels guilty .. Its ok to feel bad about having an abortion but it’s not ok to be judged by an evil hotel and mentally tortured over it .. that should’ve been handled very clearly and it’s not ..
How to ruin an otherwise competently produced film with a ludicrous and bad-faith morality play as a hinging narrative beat: exhibit A.
A young Iranian couple with a baby. They have a pleasant night out with friends. They get on their car, it's getting late, the ride home is getting tense, they decide to stay the night in a hotel called the Normandie. The place is dead empty, there's a creepy man in the reception, all they want to do is sleep. They'll get zero sleep and the place turns into a terrifying maze, an endless loop, a perfect example of how to lose your mind, completely. Director Ahari is a skilled and forceful director. Made me dizzy, made me question everything. Where are they? Who's there? Who's real? Doesn't rely on jump scares, only real scares, this was one spooky, haunted place kind of flick. A superior ghost story.
Wow. In the last 24 hours I have watched two completely different horror films that exist at opposite ends of the spectrum, but which both typify the absolute worst tendencies of the genre on video on demand. I haven't logged the other one yet, but I just finished The Night, and oh god what the fuck? This film is 100 minutes of people walking down dark hallways. There is about ten minutes, no, five minutes, of actual story here, and the rest is "hallways horror", a trend I have been decrying in my Letterboxd reviews for years now. The last half hour of The Night literally follows the main character walking through various hallways of a creepy hotel, then down…
There’s a reveal at which point it becomes painfully apparent that this movie was written by men