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Stars at Noon (2022)

Drama | 135 minutes
2,56 55 votes

Genre: Drama / Romance

Duration: 135 minuten

Alternative title: Des Etoiles à Midi

Country: France / Panama / United States

Directed by: Claire Denis

Stars: Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn and Danny Ramirez

IMDb score: 5,5 (4.707)

Releasedate: 14 October 2022

Stars at Noon plot

"A sumptuous tale of romance and espionage."

At the time of the revolution in Nicaragua in 1984, an American woman is on a mission. The journalist meets a British businessman there. It's the start of a passionate relationship, but the two soon find themselves in a web of deception and conspiracy. Together they try to flee the country.

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mrklm

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Trish [Margaret Qualley] is a freelance journalist whose life has been in doubt since the publication of her article about the horrific crimes there. She survives mainly by prostituting herself, including to Daniel [Joe Alwyn], who has something to do with an oil company. For the first 50 minutes Qualley is mainly busy getting dressed and undressed in a deadly succession of useless sex scenes, but after that hardly anything interesting happens. Danny Ramirez brings life to the brewery as a sinister police officer, but even after that it is mainly a lot of sex. Only in the last hour does Denis try to earn the predicate 'thriller'. In vain, moreover, there is a good chance that you will have drifted off to sleep by then. They are also not averse to favoritism in Cannes. That is the only credible explanation for the fact that Denis has to receive the Grand Prix for this sleep aid.

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BBarbie

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Sweltering drama about an American young woman who is stuck in present-day Nicaragua and, due to a lack of resources, prostitutes herself to survive. Her problems are compounded by an intimate relationship with a British businessman, who also has some difficulties. A vague film that mainly relies on erotic scenes.

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blurp194

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Ohwiegotta.

A good example of how differently you can look at a film. As unanimously as my predecessors criticized every conceivable aspect, I am just as enthusiastic about the film. Denis knows how to create just the right atmosphere of confusion and menace, with Qualley as the rudderless protagonist and not-quite-helpless victim in the middle. All pleasantly ambiguous, and therefore convincing. It's also nice that the ending isn't fully explained.

Like almost all of Denis's films, here too a pleasant soundtrack by Tindersticks - never overpowering, but supporting the atmosphere and narrative. That is also very pleasant, and a striking contrast to the issues of the day where it sometimes seems as if you are watching a playlist instead of a film.

Actually the only thing I really don't like about the film is exactly what starbright boy mentions as positive - I think the scene with the packed uniform is just bad, and Safdie is seriously miscast as far as I'm concerned, nowhere even remotely convincing as CIA officer, although that may be because he looks a lot like someone I know.

Perhaps the only criticism I recognize is the choice to move the underlying book to the present day - if you don't want to or can't see through that, there are countless points to irritate you. Not an issue for me, I see the motif of the film more as an atmospheric drawing than as a documentary about true events. An incentive to read the book.

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