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Eat the Night (2024)

Eat the Night poster
Directed by
Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel
Genre
drama, thriller, crime, adventure
Country
France
Runtime
1h 46m
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 38 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A brother and sister in Le Havre are devoted to an online video game. When the game is set to shut down, the sister clings to it while the brother gets involved with a new partner and a dangerous drug gang conflict.

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What happens

Eat the Night is a 2024 French thriller film, directed by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel. The film centres on the relationship between Apolline (Lila Gueneau) and Pablo (Théo Cholbi), a brother and sister in Le Havre who are passionate fans of an online video game called Darknoon; when the game developers announce that it will be shutting down at Christmastime, Apolline remains obsessed with the game while Pablo moves on and enters a romantic relationship with Night (Erwan Kepoa Falé), with whom he becomes embroiled in a dangerous conflict between rival drug dealer gangs. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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