Julia Loktev's films include The Loneliest Planet, Day Night Day NightdanMoment of Impact Godard, Dreyer, Bresson, Melville, Vertov, Rossellini, Teshigahara, post-war urban Kurosawa, Soviet films of the ’60s, Jacques Tati, Busby Berkeley, oh wait I’m going on a tangent…, I’m also very much influenced by architecture, graphic design, music, literature, newspapers, the street, the subway…. It will probably involve love, sex, violence, death…. Out in the street, the plan comes up against the real world. Consequently,  the film - shot largely in close-up in long wordless takes, as if Loktev’s been OD-ing on the Dardennes’ films but learning nothing from them - reveals little and feels painfully slow: overly reliant on a weak lead performance,  it drags so much that you’re left almost wanting the bomb to go off. The first part, PREPARATION, is all about control. They take out the real life and they replace it with artificial life. Day Night Day NightView a film clipA newspaper story about a female Chechen suicide bomber inspired Russian-born filmmaker Julia Loktev's tense, unnerving story, which follows a teenage girl's preparations to become a suicide bomber. The shots are precisely composed, stark, geometric.

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Through CineMart we hooked up with ZDF‘s Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, who provided most of the funding. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. The camera is handheld, loose, on the move. Rather than taking a typical, network-TV approach, Loktev finds poetry in the finer details lingering in the shadow of a potentially catastrophic event. The first part is about a plan. Coincidentally, just a week before, I had been walking down the same route as a tourist with a small backpack. Or a tourist as a suicide bomber? © 2020 Time Out England Limited and affiliated companies owned by Time Out Group Plc. The film is divided into two visually and sonically distinct parts, shot like two different movies. Suicide bomber as a tourist? I started reading articles about suicide bombers, always focusing on these details that made no sense, and yet made perfect sense. This Article is related to: Features and tagged Interviews. Interviews with leading film and TV creators about their process and craft.

There is no independent film. She was working as a nanny and was taking the kid to the aquarium on the Coney Island boardwalk when she saw a flyer for the auditions on a lamppost. It occurred to me that if someone looked at me and looked at this girl wandering around this city we didn’t know, we probably didn’t look so different from the outside. 2006. ( Log Out /  Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Casting.

She speaks with a nondescript American accent, and it's impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. The budget was small, but it allowed me to make the film I wanted to make, to have final cut. Ambitious but flawed study of a 19-year-old girl who arrives in New York on a mission to blow herself up in Times Square. In some ways, the film is about “the bananas.”. By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. Actors (7) Luisa Williams. Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Winner of the Prix Regards Jeune at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Release in France : 28/03/2007. The sound is silence punctuated by ruptures. Josh P. Weinstein.

Déjà vu! You’re surrounded by people, by collaborators, and yet you’re also very much alone. I was desperate. With Luisa Williams, Josh Philip Weinstein, Gareth Saxe, Nyambi Nyambi. I don’t remember what made me want to become a filmmaker.

Times Square is amazingly well-cast, and it’s beautifully art-directed. But then you think, “Well, there’s always tomorrow to screw it up.” And the more risks you take, the more opportunities you give yourself to screw it up. Writer-director Julia Loktev's (Moment of Impact) harrowing, claustrophobic thriller Day Night Day Night plunges the audience into the world of a suicide bomber just prior to her final, fatal act. The second part, ACTION, throws us out in the city, out in the street, out of control. Brooklyn’s Julia Loktev, the 37-year-old writer-director of this almost unbearably tense scene in Day Night Day Night, disagrees. Frank Dattolo. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account.

Luckily, my two main collaborators Luisa and Benoit were both incredibly game. And one day I realized I would make a terrible architect and should be a filmmaker instead. Gareth Saxe. From the start, I also decided that I wanted the girl to be an unknown face, a tabula rasa, someone you could project onto. ( Log Out /  I also won the Richard Vague Film Production Award from NYU, designed to fund features by alumni. The film follows an anonymous girl (Luisa Williams) as she’s loaded with a backpack of explosives, and her suspenseful walk through Times Square.

Out in the street, things get messy. All rights reserved. We already have this email. Directed by Julia Loktev. Suicide bomber as a tourist? We tried to play off the street, often casting people right on the spot. In color, 94 min. You wake up every day of the shoot thinking, “Today is the day I’m going to screw it up.” And then you start working, and something clicks, and you get the sense that it’s actually coming together, that something exciting is happening. ( Log Out /  2006.


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