Cannes Administrators’ Fortnight Video Sport World Queer Thriller
EAT THE NIGHT
Opening for a weeklong run on January tenth in New York Metropolis on the IFC Heart with administrators in attendance opening weekend
Increasing to Philadelphia, Kansas Metropolis, Cleveland + new Los Angeles dates and weeklong run added!
The latest trendy cinematic imaginative and prescient from Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel (JESSICA FOREVER), a bittersweet apocalyptic love story with a contemporary MMORPG twist
THEATRICAL DETAILS
Jan 10-16 / New York, NY @ IFC Heart
** Administrators Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel in attendance for opening weekend **
Jan 10 / Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA
Jan 10-16 / Kansas Metropolis, MO @ Screenland Armour
Jan 22 & 25-26 / Glendale, CA @ Laemmle Glendale
Jan 22 & 25-26 / Santa Monica, CA @ Laemmle Monica Movie Heart
Jan 22 & 25-26 / Santa Clarita, CA @ Laemmle City Heart 5
Jan 22 & 25-26 / Encino, CA @ Laemmle Newhall
Jan 22 & 25-26 / Claremont, CA @ Laemmle Claremont
Jan 30 / Cleveland, OH @ Cleveland Institute of Artwork Cinematheque
Mar 6 / Madison, WI @ UW Cinematheque
Jan 31-Feb 6 / Beverly Hill, CA @ Lumiere Cinema
The queer French romance-thriller follows Pablo (Théo Cholbi, PASSAGES), a small-time drug vendor, and his teenage sister Apolline (Lila Gueneau, THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY OF MARGOT & MARGUERITE) have solid an unbreakable bond by their shared obsession with the net online game Darknoon. When Pablo falls for the mysterious Evening (Erwan Kepoa Falé, PASSAGES, WINTER BOY), he will get swept up of their liaison, abandoning his sister to take care of the approaching shutdown of their digital haven alone. As Pablo’s reckless decisions provoke the wrath of a harmful rival gang, the tip of their digital life attracts close to, upending their actuality.
Poggi and Vinel’s second function following their 2018 darkish sci-fi debut JESSICA FOREVER and their newest to discover the boundaries of hybrid visuals and push the expectations of narrative storytelling, EAT THE NIGHT weaves between a real-world France and the digital world of Darknoon, which is realized by the creation of an unique role-playing recreation used for the manufacturing. The duo share writing credit together with Guillaume Bréaud (THE BEAST, THE YOUNG LIEUTENANT).
Poggi and Vinel directed a number of movies individually earlier than beginning their creative collaboration with AS LONG AS SHOTGUNS REMAIN in 2014, which gained the Golden Bear for Greatest Quick Movie on the Berlinale. They then directed OUR LEGACY (2016), additionally chosen on the Berlinale, and AFTER SCHOOL KNIFE FIGHT (2017), which was chosen on the Cannes Critics’ Week and launched in theaters as a part of the sketch movie ULTRA RÊVE. They reside and work between Paris, Corsica, and Toulouse.
EAT THE NIGHT is produced by Agat Movies & Ex Nihilo, Juliette Schrameck (THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD, COLD WAR), and Mathieu Verhaeghe (DEERSKIN) and Thomas Verhaeghe (DEERKSIN) for Atelier de Manufacturing. Olivier Père, Managing Director of ARTE France Cinéma and head of ARTE France’s Cinema Unit —with producing credit that embrace BACURAU, TITANE, and HIGHT LIFE, and extra— co-produced for Arte France Cinéma, and Tristan Vaslot affiliate produced.
