Sunday, January 20, 2013
Sleepless Night (2011)
SLEEPLESS NIGHT (2011) ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Frédéric Jardin
Tomer Sisley, Serge Riaboukine, Julien Boisselier
A compulsively hot-wired French action thriller about some cops, some drug lords and a duffel bag full of cocaine. The story's more complex than that, but not by much. A boy gets kidnapped. The coke goes missing. Some of the cops are crooked, but you don't know which ones. Cell phones play a key role throughout. Most of it's set in the pulsating labyrinth of an upscale nightclub called Le Tarmac. The chase is on from the opening frame, and Jardin never deviates from it. When it's over, that's when you can try to catch your breath.