An apocalypse threatens the world in Eat the Night [bande-annonce]

The latest film by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel will be released in theaters on July 17.

“Pablo and his sister Apolline escape from their daily lives by playing Darknoon, a video game that saw them grow up. One day, Pablo meets Night, whom he introduces to his little deals, and moves away from Apolline. As the end of the game approaches, the two boys provoke the anger of a rival gang…”

Presented at the Cinematographers' Fortnight and in the French Competition at the Champs-Elysées Film Festival this year, Eat the Night is revealed to the general public in a trailer that matches the darkness of its subject. There, reality and the video game merge, just like the characters and their avatars. Yet what remains tangible are the complex relationships between Pablo, Apolline and Night which form the backdrop against which the plot is projected.

Eat the Night is the second feature film written and directed by the tandem of filmmakers Caroline Poggi–Jonathan Vineland in a way it takes up some of the themes already covered in Jessica Forever, released in 2019: the parallel dimension, delinquency, violence. However, this time, the artists made the paradoxical choice of linking the plot to the city of Le Havre, and therefore, to a tangible social and urban reality, while creating a real video game on the side. Two worlds which are distinguished above all by a colorimetry which fades as the film unfolds.

Beyond the primary plot and the animation techniques, it is also adolescence that the film questions, both in Apolline's desire to lose herself in this world of images (a little nod look at the Matrix?), and in this countdown which marks the inevitable, even forced, entry into adulthood.

On the casting side, Theo Cholbi (seen in The Night of the 12th, The Harkis And The Rascals) And Erwan Kepoa Falé (The High School Student) meet again a year after the release of Passages ofIra Sachs. The character of Apolline is interpreted by Lila Gueneaunineteen years old, of which it is the second long after The Adventure of the Marguerites of Pierre Coré with Clovis Cornillac And Alice Pol.

Eat the Night will be released in theaters on July 17.

Habibi, songs for my friends: life is a cabaret, old friend! [critique]