After the Fantasy Film Festival White Nights have already presented a neck-hair-raised horror film for genre fans this year, wait with Night Call – survive the night The next highlight: a breathless action thriller that hunt you through Brussels in an exciting way and will soon be available in the home cinema.
In the action thriller Night Call, a burglary becomes the key to a rapid chase
Mady (Jonathan Feltre) runs through the dark brussels. In order to keep financially over water, the student works as a Locksmith employee And opens the doors who have locked themselves out of their own apartments. When Claire (Natacha Krief) asks him for help and then “only get money quickly”, Mady finds his eye back with the true apartment owner, who considers him to be a burglar.
The owner turns out to be a violent criminal and his colleagues grind Mady to Yannick (Romain Duris), who was stolen a large amount of money in the apartment. The gangster boss is presenting Mady in front of a deadline: the young locksmith should be monitored by the henchman Theo (Jonas Bloquet), Find the unknown thief until the end of the nightotherwise his death is waiting.
Look here the trailer for the action thriller Night Call:
Night Call: Surve the night – trailer (German) HD
Mady releases a likeable protagonist in Night Call: understandably, he wants to save his own skin, but does not provoke any other dead. He is No John Wick, but a normal in an impossible situationthat makes the best of his skills. Sometimes his awkward attempts to escape bring him to Teufel’s kitchen, then again a clever idea saves him over the next hurdle. Whether beaten, suffocates, caught, blackmailed or persecuted, he always reliably pulls us into his nightly tour-de-force with every failure and every victory.
No time to take a deep breath: Night Call is a successful action-related
The realistic approach An average citizen in distress that Night Call follows, that reduces this Action experience Fortunately not. The palpable struggles score less with great choreography or depictions of violence than to stay alive through their desperate energy. If, for example, his pursuer shoots Mady, while he cannot dodge in a glass elevator, it reliably drives the pulse up.
The film does not only owe the fact that no breather remains at the fact that Mady is persecuted and pursuer (his unknown malefactor) at the same time, but also the staging. In particular, the long -scattered long camera trips with wobbling immediacy ensure that one How live in the action feels.
In one of the most breathtaking sequences the fleeing Mady steals a bike and we follow him at a rapid pace, without cuts, down a subway staircase, hair-sharp through a safety barrier, further steps down, through a hall and finally a last escalator, before he is just going through the Closing doors of the metro hatch. The whole scene only takes 30 seconds, but feels like half a life, measured by the heartbeat frequency.
The political substructure of Night Call ensures additional tension
Right from the start, a voice on the radio reports on the protests that keep the Belgian capital under control at the time of Night Call. Demonstrations against police violence heat up the mood. The Black Lives MatterMovement is at its peak while people are angry on the streets. The additional swastika flag in the background of the burglary apartment would not have been necessary here to show the seriousness of the situation.
Mady just wants to pursue his job, but is inevitably drawn into the politically tense situation when he Between the Fronten of the civil protests and the police force device. This embedding gives Night Call at the end that certain something that lifts the thriller over a pure gangster story. She keeps the tension upright as a subliminal threat even if Mady doesn’t run out of her body.
The French original title by Michiel Blancharts Night Call, La Nuit se traîne, actually means “the night runs down”. That may be true for the suffering of the main character, but the audience is waiting for the audience here stirring-at-breathless action thriller, who is not bored for a minute And ultimately even stimulates thought when the adrenaline level can return to a normal level during the credits.
The Fantasy Film Festival White Nights will take place on February 1st and 2nd in the cities of Berlin, Cologne, Nuremberg and Stuttgart, where Night Call is shown as one of a total of ten genre films.
If you don’t make it into the cinema: In Germany Night Call will be released on DVD and Blu-ray * on February 28, 2025 and even for buying on the stream a week earlier.
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