Only the Night

2005 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama / Romance

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 23%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 23% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.0/10 10 553 553

sleepwalking somnambulist somnambulism

Plot summary

A video library clerk becomes obsessed with a sleepwalking woman and takes it upon himself to save her from catastrophe.

Director

Xavier Giannoli Photo
Xavier Giannoli

Top cast

Nicolas Duvauchelle Photo
Nicolas Duvauchelle as Julien
Marie Gili-Pierre Photo
Marie Gili-Pierre as Infirmière clinique
Benjamin Ramon Photo
Benjamin Ramon as Compagnon de Nina
Florence Loiret Caille Photo
Florence Loiret Caille as Cécile
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972.48 MB
1280*554
French 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 45 min
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1.95 GB
1920*832
French 5.1
NR
Subtitles us   hr   cz   fr   gr   hu   pt   ro   ru  
24 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by cs100

The perils of being and having a mistress

"Une Aventure" features Ludivine Sagnier portraying Gabrielle, a single unwed mom who is the mistress to an older independent businessman/investor. Although Gabrielle is well provided for by her lover, with a nice modern apartment and a nanny/maid, and although she is the one character in the movie who does not have to work for a living (she calls herself a "lady of leisure"), she is depressed and slowly descending into the depths of mental illness. The main question, as the movie progresses, is whom she will pull into the depths with her (we see just how deep the depths are at the very beginning of the film, as the rest fills in the story leading up to the opening scene).Gabrielle stumbles into Julien one night, who has just moved into her neighborhood, and that triggers a relationship that draws Julien into her life, with all its problems. Julien, although he is living with a woman, starts pursuing and trying to help Gabrielle both out of human kindness and because he is attracted to her. The circle expands as we get introduced to Julien's lover, Gabrielle's lover/provider, and the wife of Gabrielle's lover/provider. This being France, it is possible for all these people to know and interact with everyone else without furniture being thrown at each other. But that doesn't mean that there aren't tensions, or that there isn't hatred buried just beneath the surface of interactions, or that everyone is going to live happily ever after.The best performance is turned in by Bruno Todeschini as Louis, Gabrielle's lover/provider. Ludivine Sagnier shows in this role that she is more than just a pretty face, and she does an adequate job portraying a character who is the opposite of upbeat and perky.Those who purchase or rent "Une Aventure" hoping for a duplicate of Ludivine Sagnier's compelling performance in "Swimming Pool" are likely to be disappointed. Sagnier's character in "Swimming Pool" is carefree and often merrily unclothed; in "Une Aventure" her character is depressed and passive, especially during her romantic couplings. Although there are a few brief nude scenes, and Ludivine wears a very flattering dress in a nightclub scene (this is what is pictured on the box cover), there are nowhere near as many as in "Swimming Pool". Watch "Une Aventure" only if you are into dramatic French cinema about adult relationships.
Reviewed by umacooter2 8 / 10

Dazzling Sagnier

Very little separates the exquisite Ludivine Sagnier from a Raphaelite oil rendering of a classic angelic innocent in the bloom of adolescence. Also a fine actress, she lights up the screen as no other beauty in recent film history. This dark tale of a sleepwalker unaware of her nightly roaming is a good example of Sagnier's immense glow and not a bad story, either. Age 26 at this time and the mother of a daughter by co-star/then-boyfriend Nicolas Duvauchelle, she still looks fourteen and likely will even when when old age sets in. Anything Sagnier appears in is instantly enhanced by her radiance, beginning with LES MARIS, LES FEMMES, LES AMANTS in 1989 when she was just ten. Perfectly at home in front of the cameras clothed or unclothed, she displays a fairly wide range of roles, but always emanates a natural presence that is quite breathtaking. The best examples of her extraordinarily seductive work can be seen in WATER DROPS ON BURNING ROCKS (2000), LA PETITE LILI (2003) and SWIMMING POOL (2003), while a fine command of more stately character ability is demonstrated in such productions as MOLIERE (2007), A SECRET (2007) and A GIRL CUT IN TWO (2007). Do yourself a favor and take 20-minutes off to view the otherwise rather pointless short LES FRERES HELIAS with Duvauchelle, which has been posted online at Vimeo for at least two years. Single with two children and nearly fifty films since 1979, Sagnier has restricted herself mostly to the more credible European movie industry and has rightfully risen to top billing level. With the call of the West becoming louder and louder, one can only hope that Hollywood won't affect her continuing career adversely. Currently administering to a pair of Muslim lookalikes in THE DEVIL'S DOUBLE (2011), my humble advice is...don't miss any film she appears in.
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