A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with a nondescript American accent, and it’s impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision—she has made it already.
With quiet intensity, “Day Night Day Night” turns into so much more than its premise makes you believe.
It’s sober and cold in its presentation, clinical and procedural. Information aren’t fed to you, they’re withheld from you. Dialogue is minimal and unconcerned with the audience. Feelings are internalized and unspoken until they’re too much to bear.
It’s much less a film about domestic terrorism than about loneliness, isolation and inner desperation. About being lost in a sea of people. About determination and the way failure might be able to give way to true feelings and longing.
The sound-design is fantastic and Luisa Williams is absolutely phenomenal. Her performance is so subtle yet gives you so much to think about. Julia Loktev’s writing and direction maintain such an uneasy ambiguity and constantly keeps you on edge - both with the sheer nature of the story and then with the way it ultimately develops. And I loved those little moments that make you question the main character.
“Day Night Day Night” is a great and immensely unnerving film. A great exercise in micro-budget tension and thrills. And while I didn’t absolutely love it, I greatly appreciated and liked this.
With quiet intensity, “Day Night Day Night” turns into so much more than its premise makes you believe.
It’s sober and cold in its presentation, clinical and procedural. Information aren’t fed to you, they’re withheld from you. Dialogue is minimal and unconcerned with the audience. Feelings are internalized and unspoken until they’re too much to bear.
It’s much less a film about domestic terrorism than about loneliness, isolation and inner desperation. About being lost in a sea of people. About determination and the way failure might be able to give way to true feelings and longing.
The sound-design is fantastic and Luisa Williams is absolutely phenomenal. Her performance is so subtle yet gives you so much to think about. Julia Loktev’s writing and direction maintain such an uneasy ambiguity and constantly keeps you on edge - both with the sheer nature of the story and then with the way it ultimately develops. And I loved those little moments that make you question the main character.
“Day Night Day Night” is a great and immensely unnerving film. A great exercise in micro-budget tension and thrills. And while I didn’t absolutely love it, I greatly appreciated and liked this.
