Despite the Night

Despite the Night

156 mins | Drama, Horror, Mystery | Oct. 11, 2015

We enter the film like into a dream. Paris. Lenz looks for Madeleine who has mysteriously disappeared. He encounters Hélène, a young woman bewitched by her self-destructive impulses. A crazy love develops between them. Louis and Léna, devoured by their jealousy, lead Lenz to follow, against his better wishes, Hélène into the subterranean world of a dark sexual exploitation network. Although lost, lost from the first, love is what saves us.

Despite the Night

156 mins | Drama, Horror, Mystery | Oct. 11, 2015

Despite the Night
We enter the film like into a dream. Paris. Lenz looks for Madeleine who has mysteriously disappeared. He encounters Hélène, a young woman bewitched by her self-destructive impulses. A crazy love develops between them. Louis and Léna, devoured by their jealousy, lead Lenz to follow, against his better wishes, Hélène into the subterranean world of a dark sexual exploitation network. Although lost, lost from the first, love is what saves us.
IMDb rating 5.8
Producers 1976 Productions, Mandrake Films, Epileptic, Ohmstudio, Le Septième Continent, La Maison de Prod
Original title Malgré la nuit
Directors Philippe Grandrieux
Writers Bertrand Schefer, Philippe Grandrieux, Rebecca Zlotowski, John-Henry Butterworth

Cast

Ariane Labed

as Hélène

Kristian Marr

as Lenz

Roxane Mesquida

as Lena

Paul Hamy

as Louis

Johan Leysen

as Vitali

Sam Louwyck

as L'homme à la voix métallique

Jonathan Boudina

as Dandy

Sophie Guillemin

as l'infirmière