The penultimate day of the BFI London Film Festival has a little theme to it. They both begin with ‘Noctur’. It’s magic what good editing can achieve. [spacer height=”20px”] Nocturnal Animals [spacer height=”20px”] Nocturama [spacer height=”20px”]
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Debate Gala Nocturama, a slow and challenging thriller about a terrorist attack in Paris, is hard to decontextualise from the recent real-life tragedies. The first stretch of Bertrand Bonello’s film shows the meticulous preparation undertaken by a seemingly disparate group of Parisian youths in implementing a coordinated sequence of terrorist attacks. People board trains, exit…
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