Directed by:
Werner SchroeterCinematography:
Thomas PlenertComposer:
Eberhard KlokeCast:
Pascal Greggory, Eric Caravaca, Bruno Todeschini, Amira Casar, Nathalie Delon, Sami Frey, Filipe Duarte, Marc Barbé, Jean-François Stévenin, Bulle Ogier (more)Plots(1)
Werner Schroeter’s final film, Nuit de chien, is the adaptation of Juan Carlos Onetti’s eponymous novel. The filmmaker said about this Uruguayan writer: “Onetti, he is the opposite of capitalism. He is somebody who has lived with his intelligence alone.” And it’s true, the night in this crepuscular film is populated by a small troop of lonely souls. Even though each of them pursues the other, all of them are spiteful, cruel and ready to tear each other apart rather than connecting with each other. Stévenin, for example, plays a militia leader reduced to a skin of sorrow in a disastrous regime who faces Pascal Grégory, a particularly distraught physician searching for a loved woman in vain. Filmed in Portugal, using excessive artificial lighting, in French with a mostly French cast, this film displays Schroeter’s habitual theatricality, but his lyricism here has been stifled, subdued, and struggles to victoriously emerge from this slowmotion apocalypse. (Viennale)
(more)Cast
Pascal Greggory
France
Best movies:
No Time for Breakfast (1976)
La Vie en rose (2007)
Pauline at the Beach (1983)
Eric Caravaca
France
Best movies:
Nobody from Nowhere (2014)
Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)
Chicken with Plums (2011)
Bruno Todeschini
Switzerland
Best movies:
A Love to Hide (2005) (TV movie)
Up, Down, Fragile (1995)
Who Knows (2001)
Amira Casar
UK
Best movies:
Sharpe's Siege (1996) (TV movie)
Call Me by Your Name (2017)
The Very Merry Widows (2003)
Nathalie Delon
Morocco
Best movies:
Army of Shadows (1969)
Le Samouraï (1967)
Bluebeard (1972)
Sami Frey
France
Best movies:
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
La Voie Jackson (1981) (TV movie)
The Truth (1960)
Filipe Duarte
Angola
Best movies:
The Death of Louis XIV (2016)
Mosquito (2020)
The Murmuring Coast (2004)
Marc Barbé
France
Best movies:
The Bohemian Life (1992)
La Vie en rose (2007)
My Way (2012)
Jean-François Stévenin
France
Best movies:
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
Day for Night (1973)
Small Change (1976)
Bulle Ogier
France
Best movies:
Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die (1995)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Navire Night (1979)
Carloto Cotta
France
Best movies:
The Portuguese Nun (2009)
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
Arabian Nights: Volume 3, the Enchanted One (2015)
Laura Soveral
Portugal
Best movies:
Abraham's Valley (1993)
Lourdes: A Story of Faith, Science and Miracles (2000) (TV movie)
Tabu (2012)
Simão Cayatte
Best movies:
Fatima (2020)
Tiago Manaïa
Portugal
Best movies:
The Role of Her Life (2004)
Gigola (2010)
João Baptista
Portugal
Best movies:
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
Teresa Tavares
Portugal
Best movies:
Blood of My Blood (2011)
Marta Mateus
Portugal
Best movies:
Two Drifters (2005)
Elsa Zylberstein
France
Best movies:
Mina Tannenbaum (1994)
I've Loved You So Long (2008)
A Bag of Marbles (2017)
André Patrício
Portugal
Best movies:
Der Lissabon-Krimi (2018) (series)