Dark Night
Directed by Tim Sutton
A suburban landscape plays witness to the inevitable, unfolding events that culminate in a Cineplex massacre. Over the course of one day, from sunrise to midnight, six strangers - the shooter among them - share in the new American nightmare.
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Robert Jumper, Anna Rose, Rosie Rodriguez, Karina Macias, Aaron Purvis, Eddie Cacciola
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English / 2016 / 85’
Dark Night
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FICTION - Drama
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Director & Screenwriter Tim Sutton Director of Photography Hélène Louvart Editor Jeanne Applegate Music Maica Armata Producer Alexandra Byer Executive Producers John Baker, Andre Des Rochers, Jonathan Gray, Bruce Meyerson
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DCP - Colour- 5.1
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Sundance Film Festival 2016
Orizzonti - Out of Competition Venice Film Festival 2016
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"Sundance at its best!"
Manohla Dargis, NEW YORK TIMES
"Watching Dark Night in an actual movie theater is a surreal experience"
Peter Debruge, VARIETY
"Haunting" Eric Kohn, INDIEWIRE
"Sutton make cuts only when absolutely necessary, allowing the breath of the shot to land and expand out across the screen. This allows for the undercurrent of tension to ebb and flow with a frightening accuracy of just when and where it rises and falls and how it hits you. Dark Night is the first great film of 2016!" TWITCH
"The most oblique of the festival’s many reflections on gun violence in America, Tim Sutton’s genuinely unsettling experiment — beautifully lensed by d.p. Helene Louvart — transforms the emptiness and alienation of suburban youth culture into a sort of collective dream-space, where the mundane takes on an ever-present undercurrent of dread."
Justin Chang, VARIETY
"A thought-provoking requiem! This searing movie is absolutely a must-see" THE PLAYLIST
"Among the top fifteen favorites of Sundance! The goal here is brutal honesty. What may feel obvious onscreen needs to begin feeling as obvious here, in real life." THE FILMSTAGE -
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