In a city, on a very hot, stormy summer night, men, women, children, caught up in desire, ready for anything, let themselves be carried away, sometimes to the point of vertigo, in the excess of their feelings. Until dawn. In All Night Long, fragments like pieces of intensity, almost all of which have to do with the quivering, the loving or sexual tension, always with feelings.
Dir. Chantal AKERMAN
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Yearning. Craving. Meeting. Leaving. Bodies clashing, hearts crashing. Moments of love, in and out of it, as experienced by insomniacs throughout one long, melancholic and sweating night across Brussels.
This is human passion distilled to its simplest and rawest, shorn of context or narrative, choreographed like a dance by Chantal Akerman and captured as a portmanteau of tableaus by Caroline Champetier. Before dawn, the night is long for all – for those who are watching, every second counts.
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Clarence TSUI
A Hong Kong-based film critic whose work has been published in the “South China Morning Post”, “The Hollywood Reporter”, “Cineaste”, “Film Quarterly” and “The Film Verdict”. TSUI has served on juries in Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam, Tokyo and Paris.