The Night Doctor (2020)
(Médecin de nuit)
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 82m
Director: Elie Wajeman
Cast: Vincent Macaigne, Pio Marmaï, Sara Giraudeau, Sarah Le Picard
Synopsis:
A doctor working nights, writing subscriptions for drugs he probably shouldn't, and two-timing his wife with his cousin's girlfriend, attempts in the course of one night to do the right thing by everyone. But the odds suddenly stack up against him.
Review:
Notwithstanding a plot which goes somewhat under-explained in retrospect, this deeply humane drama untangles the ethics of living and working in a dysfunctional urban society by night, where the dividing line between the addict in extremis and the acolyte fuelling the black market in prescription medication is faint indeed. Macaigne, his expression as often shrouded behind a mass of beard, gives a performance of brute determination, desperation and near emotional collapse as the saint-like doctor with feet of clay. Wajeman's camera does not miss a trick and makes great play of nocturnal shallow focus and hyper mobility.
(Médecin de nuit)
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 82m
Director: Elie Wajeman
Cast: Vincent Macaigne, Pio Marmaï, Sara Giraudeau, Sarah Le Picard
Synopsis:
A doctor working nights, writing subscriptions for drugs he probably shouldn't, and two-timing his wife with his cousin's girlfriend, attempts in the course of one night to do the right thing by everyone. But the odds suddenly stack up against him.
Review:
Notwithstanding a plot which goes somewhat under-explained in retrospect, this deeply humane drama untangles the ethics of living and working in a dysfunctional urban society by night, where the dividing line between the addict in extremis and the acolyte fuelling the black market in prescription medication is faint indeed. Macaigne, his expression as often shrouded behind a mass of beard, gives a performance of brute determination, desperation and near emotional collapse as the saint-like doctor with feet of clay. Wajeman's camera does not miss a trick and makes great play of nocturnal shallow focus and hyper mobility.
(Médecin de nuit)
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 82m
Director: Elie Wajeman
Cast: Vincent Macaigne, Pio Marmaï, Sara Giraudeau, Sarah Le Picard
Synopsis:
A doctor working nights, writing subscriptions for drugs he probably shouldn't, and two-timing his wife with his cousin's girlfriend, attempts in the course of one night to do the right thing by everyone. But the odds suddenly stack up against him.
Review:
Notwithstanding a plot which goes somewhat under-explained in retrospect, this deeply humane drama untangles the ethics of living and working in a dysfunctional urban society by night, where the dividing line between the addict in extremis and the acolyte fuelling the black market in prescription medication is faint indeed. Macaigne, his expression as often shrouded behind a mass of beard, gives a performance of brute determination, desperation and near emotional collapse as the saint-like doctor with feet of clay. Wajeman's camera does not miss a trick and makes great play of nocturnal shallow focus and hyper mobility.