Friday Night ( Vendredi soir )

Friday Night (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Vendredi soir
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Dolby DTS 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
88 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Booklet

Movie filmed in 2002 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Claire Denis

Written By:
Emmanuèle Bernheim

Actors:
Valérie Lemercier ..... Laure
Vincent Lindon ..... Jean
Hélène de Saint-Père ..... Marie
Hélène Fillières ..... La femme fatiguée
Florence Loiret ..... La jeune fille du flipper (as Florence Loiret-Caille)
Grégoire Colin ..... Le jeune homme en parka
Gilles D'Ambra ..... Le mari de la femme fatiguée
Micha Lescot ..... Le réceptionniste
Gianfranco Poddighe ..... Le maître d'hôtel
Nordine Barour ..... Le serveur
Lionel Goldstein ..... L'acheteur
Didier Woldemard ..... Le chauffeur de la camionnette
Nicolas Struve ..... L'homme de l'accrochage
Jérôme Pouly ..... Le deuxième homme de l'accrochage
Nausicaa Meyer ..... La femme de l'accrochage

Synopsis:

Claire Denis' FRIDAY NIGHT, a fantasy that follows a woman into a one-night stand, is an adaptation of the popular novel by Emmanuelle Bernheim who also cowrote the story with Denis. Dreamy and confused, the film begins as Laure (Valerie Lemercier) is packing up her Paris apartment and preparing to move. The chaos of this situation leads directly into the next, as Laure gets in her car and begins to drive across town to a dinner party, only to become stuck in a massive traffic jam. As radio reports continue to stress the drastic and unbreakable gridlock that has Paris literally locked in the streets, a rainstorm blurs Laure's vision. Suddenly, a stranger (Vincent Lindon) approaches on foot, and she offers him a ride. But they're not going anywhere, just smoking, and sitting idle. Eventually Laure calls her friends and cancels on the dinner party, leaving her Friday night wide open to follow whatever path it may take. A master at building tension and suspense, Denis creates so much chemistry between Laure and her fantasy man that viewers may await a turn to violence or something shockingly unexpected. However, that nervous and mysterious feeling just builds as the ambiguous story of FRIDAY NIGHT continues and a seemingly banal situation--a traffic jam on a rainy Friday--becomes a magical adventure.

Laure has packed up all her belongings in boxes and is going to live with Francois. As she's heading for dinner at Marie and Bernard's place she gets caught up in an enormous traffic jam. Everybody on the street is tense, agitated, except a man in a leather jacket, standing still, just a little way up ahead.

Paris 1995. A wave of public transport strikes paralyse the city in November and December. Laure decides to go and stay with her fiancé, François, a doctor. While stuck in traffic, she decides to give a lift to a hitchhiker. They are immediately attracted to each other and decide to spend the night together.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 04 April, 2009.

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