/Film will be co-presenting a free screening of Sleepless Night on Thursday, May 3rd at USC in Los Angeles with our friends at FirstShowing. We first saw this french action film at the Toronto International Film Festival and it blew me away. It's probably one of the best written contained action thrillers in years. As…
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Outside a select few titles, Hollywood really hasn't been doing too well releasing bad-ass, critically-acclaimed action films. For those, smart moviegoers are looking overseas to films like The Raid: Redemption and the film you're about to watch the trailer for, Sleepless Night. Directed by Frédéric Jardin, the festival favorite (read our reviews from Toronto and Fantastic…
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The French thriller Sleepless Night, in which two police officers who moonlight stealing drugs have to deal with insanity on a night when they lose their merchandise, has been earning raves since it premiered as part of the Midnight Madness program at TIFF. Peter loved the film in Toronto, and Germain loved it at Fantastic…
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In the movies, when good guys get mixed up in drugs, it's a recipe for disaster. And while that's the basic drive of both Sleepless Night and El Narco, one does it on a very small scale with big results and the other does it on a huge scale with lesser results. Sleepless Night, which…
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I walked out of an early Toronto International Film Festival press screening 10 days ago ranting and raving about Frédéric Jardin's incredible French contained action thriller Sleepless Night. I posted an enthusiastic review on September 12th calling it "one of the best and tightest written action thrillers I've seen in the past few years" and…
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Frédéric Jardin's french film Sleepless Night might be one of the best and tightest written action thrillers I've seen in the past few years. The film is kind of like Die Hard meets 24 by way of Taken, but never falling into many of the genre cliches set-up by those films. A drug heist goes…
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