Sleepless Night

France 2011, 2011 minutes
Dir. Frederic Jardin
In French with English subtitles
Rating: [R18] violence and sexual references
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Action/Adventure, Suspense/Crime / Euro-Crime

Topics: Drugs & Alcohol.

Feat. Tomer Sisley, Serge Riaboukine, Julien Boisselier, Dominique Bettenfeld, Laurent Stocker, Birol Unel

Aroview: A stonking, white-knuckle French action picture, smartly and tightly wound around a cop's frantic search for a stolen drug stash in order to free his kidnapped son.

Set over one 24-hour period and mostly within the confines of a bustling night club, three sets of antagonists (club owners, street dealers and corrupt cops) compound havoc upon our swarthy hero, brilliantly played by action debutante, Tomer Sisley. Heightened by ultra-fluid, twitchy camera-work, this is a pulse-pounding entertainment spiked with witty, delirious action sequences.

NZ International Film Festival 2012