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The Night Eats the World(La Nuit a dévoré le monde)

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France · 2018
1h 34m
Director Dominique Rocher
Starring Anders Danielsen Lie, Golshifteh Farahani, Denis Lavant, Sigrid Bouaziz
Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller

In this minimalist zombie thriller, Sam, a Paris-based musician, wakes up in an apartment the night after a party to discover that zombies have overrun the city. Fearing for his life and unable to leave the building, Sam attempts to survive while trying to find out if anyone else is still alive.

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Variety by Dennis Harvey

The very definition of a well-made movie that nonetheless really needn’t have been made at all, Rocher’s entry into the canon will attract a few zombie completists, but provide little fun for the average genre buff and underwhelming reward for art-house audiences.

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IndieWire by Eric Kohn

Even as the story drifts off, Night Eats the World derives its power from a beguiling, provocative implication: It’s hard to confront a hostile world, but gathering the courage to do so doesn’t make the job any easier.

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The Film Stage by Jared Mobarak

The Night Eats the World gazes upon what’s left of society through a lens of pragmatism. It acknowledges that humanity is barely beating back its own extinction, that survivors are the minority and therefore minutes from oblivion if they cannot adapt.

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The New York Times by Jason Zinoman

The makeup design and chase scenes are rote, and the little dramatic conflict — arguments over where to hide — traffic in the oldest clichés in the genre.

50

The Hollywood Reporter by Jordan Mintzer

The problem is that The Night Eats the World steers so far into the quotidian of its hero that it can become quite frustrating, and even rather dull, to sit through. The threat of death doesn't become as tangible as it should, and the suspense wears itself too thin.

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The A.V. Club by Katie Rife

In the end, though, it’s the very concepts that make The Night Eats The World sound insufferably pretentious on paper — namely, its high-minded ideas and emphasis on small moments — that tip the film toward intriguing rather than, well, zombifying.

50

Movie Nation by Roger Moore

While the setting is striking, a Paris “28 Days Later/Rammbock/I Am Legend” dark and silent after the end of civilization, genre fans may find this passive narrative slow and largely devoid of action, despite the odd burst of menace. Because it is. Slow.

60

Village Voice by Simon Abrams

Unfortunately, the best and worst thing about director Dominique Rocher and his two co-writers’ scenario is its familiarity.

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