Images of particles floating in the air open the film and recur throughout it: like those particles, the film says, the aftermath of terrorism damages the bodies and minds and anyone who has breathed its awful air. If one of terrorism’s aims is to drive wedges between citizens, then on the evidence of One Year, One Night, it works all too well. Merlant and Pérez Biscayart are superb separately, but even better together, as the relationship of the loving but insecure Ramón and Céline slowly and painfully starts to fall apart. She increasingly becomes a mother figure to the edgy Ramón, a situation that neither of them is happy with and which drives them to some authentically explosive and brilliantly delivered exchanges. (Editing by Sergi Dies and Fernando Franco deserves special mention.) Ramón becomes increasingly distracted at work, seeking out peaceful places like art galleries, suffering anxiety attacks and, later, becoming increasingly obsessed with mentally recreating every detail of the event, including a glimpse of the face of one of the shooters, which he is unable to shake off.Ĭéline, meanwhile, represses her memories, making valiant attempts to carry on as though nothing has happened. It quickly becomes clear that something is brewing in the supposed calm after the storm: Ramón is having difficulty breathing, while Céline has not felt able to tell her parents about the awful event.įrom here on, the film will employ multiple flashbacks and forwards - initially disorientatingly, until we realise that seeing and feeling things from the characters’ point of view is the whole point - to play out the differing consequences of their night in hell on Ramón and Céline.
We first encounter hyper, angular bohemian Spaniard Ramón (Argentinian Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, BPM), and calm, pragmatic Céline (Noémie Merlant, Portrait of a Lady On Fire) in their cramped Paris apartment the morning after the Bataclan shootings. The result is an emotionally compelling psychological drama that, using Berlin as a platform, could bring Lacuesta wider international acclaim.Īn emotionally compelling psychological drama Based on survivor testimony and on Spaniard Ramon Gonzalez’s memoir ‘Peace, Love and Death Metal’, this Spain/France coproduction brings to bear all Lacuesta’s hallmarks, among them a quasi-documentary style grounded in realism and a deep compassion for the unfortunate. One Year, One Night, Isaki Lacuesta’s subtle and powerful follow-up to Between Two Waters, explores the consequences for a young couple in the crowd at the 2015 concert at the Bataclan theatre in Paris, where a terrorist attack killed 90 people.
Fields And Friends Cinema, S.l/La Termita Films, S.l/Noodles Prodĭir: Isaki Lacuesta.
Source: A.i.e/Bambu Producciones, S.l/Mr.
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