"Bertrand Bonello’s 'Nocturama' is another August heist movie, to place alongside Josh and Benny Safdie’s 'Good Time' and Steven Soderbergh’s 'Logan Lucky.' (It came out in France last year and was released here on August 11th.) Of the three films, 'Nocturama' is both the most and the least political. The criminal scheme on which it’s centered is not about loot but about terrorism: nine young people in the Paris region plot a coördinated series of terrorist attacks, which include a point-blank murder and a quartet of nearly simultaneous bombings, including at busy sites, one of which—the Ministry of the Interior—is an expressly political venue. Yet despite the drama about attacks of a political nature on political targets, Bonello filters politics out of the film: the plotters have no explicit program, no stated demands, no debated or declared ideology, not even any particular expressed complaints about the way of the world or the situation in France. ..."
New Yorker: The Ideological Mad Libs of “Nocturama” By Richard Brody
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NY Times: In ‘Nocturama,’ Bored, Beautiful Terrorists With a Taste for Luxury Brands by A.O. Scott
W - Nocturama
YouTube: NOCTURAMA Trailer | Festival 2016
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