Jusquau bout de la nuit
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Duration Language French | Director Gerard Blain Country France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date 13 September 1995 (1995-09-13) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jusquau bout de la nuit ("until the end of the night") is a 1995 French drama film directed by Gerard Blain, starring Blain and Anicee Alvina. It tells the story of a man in his sixties who is released after a long prison sentence, and tries to have a relationship with a younger woman, while still determined to live outside the law. Blain described the film as "not a gangster film, but a love film and a relentless tragedy". Sylvia Jeanjacquot, the widow of the criminal Jacques Mesrine, appears in a minor role.
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The film was shot in December 1994 in Lyon, Villeurbane, Venissieux and Sathonay. It was shown at the Montreal World Film Festival and Cairo International Film Festival in 1995. It was released on France on 13 September 1995.
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Reception
Artes Olivier Pere wrote in 2012 that while the main character is a rebel of a type already seen in Blains previous films, the director here deviates from genre conventions more heavily than before. Pere wrote: "More surprising is the radicality of the directing which exposes the extremist discourse of the film. In great rigour, it evokes the cinematography of Robert Bresson, admittedly referenced by Blain throughout his whole filmography." Pere continued: "With its rigorous aesthetics and moral, Jusqu’au bout de la nuit distinguishes itself from all and sundry of the French cinematic output of its time. But it is also a (politically) incorrect and disturbing film, charged with a restrained and subversive violence."