A film by Akihiro Hata
With: Damien Bonnard, Samir Guesmi, Mouna Soualem, Tudor Aaron Istodor, Ahmed Abdel Laoui, Issaka Sawadogo, Sophie Mousel, Denis Eyriey, Mounir Margoum, Hamed Souna
Vincent works the night shift on the construction site of a futuristic district. When a worker goes missing, Vincent and his colleagues suspect that their superiors are covering up an accident. But soon another worker disappears.
Our rate: **
A film that, in its first half, seems intent on heavily establishing a social drama, with insistence rather than patience, noise and commotion rather than delicacy. However, there are a few clues that suggest that beyond the clumsy and predictable plot (a conflict between evil bosses and workers who are prey to their own greed), other elements may enrich the story. These elements are gradually revealed, the tension builds, and the film’s interpretation becomes more ambiguous. The clumsy politics gradually give way to more astute societal questioning, moral dilemmas that reflect reality (beyond even the context of public construction in which our protagonists work), to a thriller that intensifies and relies on the codes of the genre, but also and above all to a horror story that invites the paranormal to the party, in a clever mix. This is achieved through a carefully crafted soundscape that both reflects reality and puts the viewer’s eardrums to the test.
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