Gattaca meets THX1138 meets Blade Runner...
A puzzling and ponderous slice of existential sci-fi, Alejandro Molina's debut has an ingenious premise but it doesn't quite know what to do with its undeniably original central idea. With sleek design and considered performances from its appealing leads, the film is quietly absorbing without ever really gripping the viewer the way it could and should.
Sometime in the future, an enzyme has been used to segregate our race into daytime and nighttime factions. Everyone goes to rest in tandem, just as the other half of society awakes....
A puzzling and ponderous slice of existential sci-fi, Alejandro Molina's debut has an ingenious premise but it doesn't quite know what to do with its undeniably original central idea. With sleek design and considered performances from its appealing leads, the film is quietly absorbing without ever really gripping the viewer the way it could and should.
Sometime in the future, an enzyme has been used to segregate our race into daytime and nighttime factions. Everyone goes to rest in tandem, just as the other half of society awakes....
- 7/11/2011
- by David Graham
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Year: 2010
Directors: Alejandro Molina
Writers: Roberto Garza
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 7 out of 10
In the world of By Day By Night the inhabitants of a vast domed city are separated into two divisions: day people who work during daylight hours and sleep and night, and the night people who inhabit the same living quarters for sleep during the day and work the same jobs at night. It seems that space is so limited in the future, and the outside world apparently so hostile, that society has had to live this way for decades. A child is discovered by the night people, apparently comatose and with no record of where it came from. Meanwhile a day person, a woman called Aurora, desperately seeks news of her daughter who was selected for "leadership training" but cannot get a straight answer out of the leaders themselves...
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Directors: Alejandro Molina
Writers: Roberto Garza
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 7 out of 10
In the world of By Day By Night the inhabitants of a vast domed city are separated into two divisions: day people who work during daylight hours and sleep and night, and the night people who inhabit the same living quarters for sleep during the day and work the same jobs at night. It seems that space is so limited in the future, and the outside world apparently so hostile, that society has had to live this way for decades. A child is discovered by the night people, apparently comatose and with no record of where it came from. Meanwhile a day person, a woman called Aurora, desperately seeks news of her daughter who was selected for "leadership training" but cannot get a straight answer out of the leaders themselves...
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- 6/27/2011
- QuietEarth.us
We all have varying tastes that appeal to us at certain times in our lives or heck, at certain hours of the day but most of us have a genre we love so much, we could watch endless hours of it. For me, that has to be the low-key scifi dramas, films like Gattaca, Code 46, Never Let Me Go (review), Transfer (review) and to an extent, both Blade Runner and Children of Men though these two are much bigger in scope and budget. I'm thrilled to have another possible entry into the list of "cerebral scifi."
Alejandro Molina makes the jump from film editor to director with By Day and by Night ( De dia y de noche), a quiet drama set in a future where overpopulation has forced the state to take an innovative approach to population control. In the case here, they have implanted the population with an...
Alejandro Molina makes the jump from film editor to director with By Day and by Night ( De dia y de noche), a quiet drama set in a future where overpopulation has forced the state to take an innovative approach to population control. In the case here, they have implanted the population with an...
- 6/18/2011
- QuietEarth.us
Mexico City -- The 8th edition of the Morelia International Film Festival will kick off with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's latest drama "Biutiful," marking the Mexico premiere of the Javier Bardem vehicle.
"Biutiful," Mexico's foreign-language Oscar submission, made its worldwide debut in Cannes earlier this year, where Bardem won best actor for his role as an underworld businessman.
Festival director Daniela Michel told reporters at a Wednesday news conference that Gonzalez Inarritu, Bardem and Argentine actress Maricel Alvarez will attend the film fest, which runs from Oct. 16-24. "Biutiful" will screen out of competition.
Also programmed for this year's event is a retrospective spanning the career of Terry Gilliam, which includes all 12 of his feature films. Gilliam will be on hand as a special guest.
More than 80 Mexican films will screen in competition, with seven fiction works from first- and second-time directors. The feature films in the official selection comprise Jorge Michel Grau...
"Biutiful," Mexico's foreign-language Oscar submission, made its worldwide debut in Cannes earlier this year, where Bardem won best actor for his role as an underworld businessman.
Festival director Daniela Michel told reporters at a Wednesday news conference that Gonzalez Inarritu, Bardem and Argentine actress Maricel Alvarez will attend the film fest, which runs from Oct. 16-24. "Biutiful" will screen out of competition.
Also programmed for this year's event is a retrospective spanning the career of Terry Gilliam, which includes all 12 of his feature films. Gilliam will be on hand as a special guest.
More than 80 Mexican films will screen in competition, with seven fiction works from first- and second-time directors. The feature films in the official selection comprise Jorge Michel Grau...
- 10/6/2010
- by By John Hecht
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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