 | MOVIE DETAILS • Name: The Night Eats The World (aka La nuit a dévoré le monde) • Year: 2018 • Country: France • Director: Dominique Rocher • Main cast: Anders Danielsen Lie, Golshifteh Farahani, Sigrid Bouaziz, Denis Lavant • Runtime: 93 minutes • Production company: Haut et Court, Canal+, Ciné+ • TRAILER |
Oh, survival movies, a favorite for many horror lovers. But sometimes surviving can be boring, and tedious. Especially if you are the only one alive after a zombie outcast and the whole city is infested by brainless flesh-eater bastards. Once you have collected all the basic to survive, you have secured good amounts of food and you have prepared your set of alarms and traps, perhaps there is not much more left to do than count the flies and see how time passes until death finally catches you. And, eventually, you can lose your mind. Well, that is pretty much everything that happens in The Night Eats The World (2018) – or La Nuit A Dévoré Le Monde in original French language.
Most of the film is placed inside a residential building in Paris, the capital of love, the city of lights, but also a Hell on Earth full of those infectious gruesome beings. And I’m talking about the zombies of the movie, not French people in general. The setup and decoration of the devastated city are well achieved, and the feeling of loneliness and despair the main character suffers gets well transmitted to the audience. The main character, almost the only alive person present along the entire movie running time, that young man called Sam played by Anders Danielsen Lie, has not much to do. He is safe in his building, away from the monsters inhabiting the streets. But should he stay there, alone, with plenty of supplies that eventually might end? Or should he try to find another alive human being and abandon his comfort zone? Actually, this is a dilemma many of us can find in the course of our lives. Some people are scared of change, some other people are scared of staying the same. But what is the winning choice? That, we don’t know.
The Night Eats The World (2018) is well done in its execution, but in my opinion, it lacks a good pace. After the first minutes following the zombie outcast, and once the main character is safe in a building entirely for him, there is not much to do. Time goes by and not much happens. I can understand that is the idea the filmmakers wanted to share with the audience, the loneliness of the human being in an environment of survival. It is an interesting point of view, but it is boring to watch. To me, the movie became painful to stand. Although some action eventually happens, a couple of plot twists that make one think, we all participate in a way with the events and with the lonely Sam, but his boredom is our boredom.
I think a movie like The Night Eats The World (2018) needs more contents, more drive. The concept and approach are interesting, but to be a good movie, something to enjoy, remember and share with your friends, it needs much more. Otherwise, it stays as a mere anecdote watched in a film festival.
RATE: 4/10
IMDB URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4266076
