Cannes Administrators’ Fortnight Video Recreation World Queer Thriller
EAT THE NIGHT
Opening January 10 in Choose Cities from Altered Innocence
The most recent fashionable cinematic imaginative and prescient from Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel (JESSICA FOREVER), a bittersweet apocalyptic love story with a contemporary MMORPG twist
Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel’s putting sophomore function EAT THE NIGHT world premiered as a part of the 2024 Cannes Movie Competition as a part of the Administrators’ Fortnight part and went on to display screen at BFI London Movie Fest, Competition du nouveau cinéma, Reykjavik Worldwide Movie Competition, and extra. It gained Finest Director and the Prix de la Critique on the Champs-Élysées Movie Competition in Paris.
The French queer romance-thriller follows Pablo (Théo Cholbi, PASSAGES), a small-time drug supplier, and his teenage sister Apolline (Lila Gueneau, THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY OF MARGOT & MARGUERITE) have solid an unbreakable bond by means of their shared obsession with the net online game Darknoon. When Pablo falls for the mysterious Night time (Erwan Kepoa Falé, PASSAGES, WINTER BOY), he will get swept up of their liaison, abandoning his sister to cope with the upcoming shutdown of their digital haven alone. As Pablo’s reckless selections provoke the wrath of a harmful rival gang, the top 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 bounds 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 means of the creation of an authentic 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 Finest 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.
