Quick-witted undercover cop thriller set in a vast Paris nightclub. “With this tightly paced nail-biter, director Frédéric Jardin has made a film that’s surpassed its US counterparts by a country kilometer.” — Time Out NY
With this tightly paced nail-biter, Frédéric Jardin has made a film that’s surpassed its US counterparts by a country kilometer.
Screened as part of NZIFF 2012
Sleepless Night 2011
Nuit blanche
The latest French thriller to be handed the dubious compliment of a US remake, Sleepless Night makes deft play with an intricate set of double crosses and unleashes a torrent of action through the restaurants, kitchens, bathrooms, passageways and dance floors of a vast Parisian nightclub. To begin to describe the plot is to begin to throw out spoilers. Let’s just say a bent cop finds himself on the wrong side of a Corsican drug lord; a blameless teenager is held to ransom; and things become fatally complicated when the undercover squad moves in. — BG
“This French police thriller abounds in post-Woo/Tarantino action tropes… But Frédéric Jardin also brings a restless intelligence and disciplined glee to Sleepless Night that far surpasses its cinematic influences… Its bruising slapstick… multiple mistaken identities (and ethnicities), and well-developed characters accumulate into something uncommonly human for a shoot-‘em-up.” — Mark Holcomb, Village Voice