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15.02.2022 - 22:11 / variety.com
Michael Nordine authorIt’s May 10, 1981, and Paris is celebrating. French political junkies might know the cause for this revelry, but for the rest of us, the reason seems to matter less than the electric atmosphere enveloping the streets as people dance to the sound of honking car horns.
Grainy, scene-setting archival footage is interspersed with the main action here and elsewhere in Mikhaël Hers’ period piece, which stars Charlotte Gainsbourg as a single mother looking to rediscover herself after being left by her husband. An airy, low-key drama that doesn’t suffer for its lack of narrative tension, “The Passengers of the Night” further proves the old adage about the journey mattering more the destination.
We first meet Élisabet (Gainsbourg) at her lowest: unemployed, recently single and responsible for two teenagers (Quito Rayon-Richter and Megan Northam) whose father has walked out on the family. That may sound like the setup for something dire, but “The Passengers of the Night” lands closer to the opposite end of the spectrum — gently uplifting without being schmaltzy, and moving without resorting to sentimentality.
That’s even true when the narrative shifts to Talulah (Noée Abita), a wayward youth whom Élisabet brings out of the cold and into the warmth of her home.The drama, such as it is, ultimately seems to pass Élisabet by. One of the first things we learn about her is that she’s strapped for cash and, having spent the preceding years raising her children, doesn’t have much of a résumé to speak of.
Her financial woes are taken care of almost immediately when she lands a gig at the late-night radio show for which “Passengers” is named. Despite immediately being told that the pay is “terrible,” she and her brood
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We’re back in 1981 — among placards, lapel badges and whooping young people. François Mitterand, a socialist, has just been elected president of France. It isn’t a date that resonates much now — certainly not outside France — but the palpable sense of excitement in the opening scene of Mikhael Hers’s Berlin Film Festival competition entry The Passengers Of The Night suggests we are about to take a sweeping look at lived history.
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