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Ce Que le Jour Doit à la Nuit (2012)

Romance | 162 minutes
3,42 6 votes

Genre: Romance

Duration: 162 minuten

Alternative title: What the Day Owes the Night

Country: France

Directed by: Alexandre Arcady

Stars: Fu'ad Aït Aattou, Anne Parillaud and Nora Arnezeder

IMDb score: 7,8 (4.520)

Releasedate: 12 September 2012

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Ce Que le Jour Doit à la Nuit plot

The life from the 1930s to the present of the Algerian Younes. His fate is marked by tragedy. He was born into a poor peasant family and was snatched from his mother at the age of nine. He is entrusted to his uncle, a notable in Oran in Algeria. Married to a French woman, his uncle dreams of a better life for his charming cousin Younes. Renamed Jonas, he integrates with the youth of the 'Pied Noirs', the French population group in Algeria before the country's independence. However, his life will soon be disrupted by conflicts that will shake the country to its foundations.

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BBarbie

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Beautiful chronicle about a doomed love with the contrasts between the French inhabitants of the former colony Algeria and the native population in the background. The story initially flows along quietly, but takes a dramatic turn halfway through and then more venom. Too bad that protagonist Fu'ad Aït Aattou fills his role rather flatly. A bit more emotion from his side would have been welcome, given the plot's tenor. The film has a beautiful title by the way!

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Movsin

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Love drama above all, but also the life chronicle of a young Algerian, his sad experiences during his childhood, his later friendships and all this with the French-Algerian colonial aspects, the inevitable apartheid and the inevitable resistance, more than in the background.

Sometimes it is a bit long-winded (the holiday '53), but as a whole it is still beautifully and neatly told.

Definitely good interpretations.

First film I've seen by Alexandre Arcady, who has been in the business for a long time, born in Algeria but based this film on the novel of the same name.

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blurp194

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Algeria-stalgia.

In France too, dealing with a former colony is not uncontroversial, and the relationship with the right-wing extremists of the OAS is still close to the surface. And yes, it is visually a beautiful film - despite the three-hour playing time, that diminutive. Because despite all the family drama, what it is probably about is somewhat quietly avoided, circumvented, concealed, and the promising title is not lived up to.

The ambition was apparently not much more than to make very, very beautiful pictures of pre-war Algeria, and that succeeds quite well. Just like Aattou, as it appears several times in the narrative, apparently does not look bad. Handsome guy, yes. But why does Arnezeder get the role of the final girl instead of the in my opinion much, much more beautiful Vacth?

I suppose so. Just like the whole film gets bogged down in relatively uninteresting family affairs, while that could have been the stepping stone to a more interesting interpretation of, say, a Heart of Darkness. Too bad, a missed opportunity, but it's so close that you could hope for a director's cut to close that gap.

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