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TOUTE UNE NUIT
1982
Director
Chantal Akerman
Starring
Aurore Clément
Tchéky Karyo
Runtime
91 minutes
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A hot summer evening in Brussels: couples dance in bars and cafés, part outside homes, or escape together under the darkness of night; some discover or reignite romance, some end it, while still more grasp tightly to each other in the last moments of dying love. In Chantal Akerman’s inimitable TOUT UNE NUIT, the modern city and its inhabitants are captured in fragmentary, elliptical visions of desire, frustration, and loneliness, with more than two dozen characters appearing in fleeting vignettes that tease the possibility of larger narratives.
Applying a formalist framework to tableaulike sequences drenched in moody atmosphere, Akerman fashions a new cinematic grammar that combines structuralist rigor with the dreamy solitude of Edward Hopper: in her hands, human intimacy and alienation are dramatically heightened by paring down dialogue and foregrounding delicate and sudden gestures, sounds, and glances. Alongside magnus opus JEANNE DIELMAN, TOUT UNE NUIT is one of the legendary Belgium director’s greatest triumphs: a charming, avant-garde melodrama that is as much about the weight of time as the longing for connection.
Applying a formalist framework to tableaulike sequences drenched in moody atmosphere, Akerman fashions a new cinematic grammar that combines structuralist rigor with the dreamy solitude of Edward Hopper: in her hands, human intimacy and alienation are dramatically heightened by paring down dialogue and foregrounding delicate and sudden gestures, sounds, and glances. Alongside magnus opus JEANNE DIELMAN, TOUT UNE NUIT is one of the legendary Belgium director’s greatest triumphs: a charming, avant-garde melodrama that is as much about the weight of time as the longing for connection.