A busy party in a Paris townhouse. Sam says goodbye to his ex-girlfriend and then wants to get out as fast as possible – but not without his music collection, which is still in the office. So he decides to wait until things have calmed down. But this poor twenty-something has no chance.
When he wakes up the next day and unlocks the door, it turns out all the party guests have been transformed into bloodthirsty zombies. Along with the rest of the French capital, where the last normal people are dying in the streets. Sam is relatively safe indoors. He locks the snappy-jawed undead in their apartments – the rest of the chic building becomes his own private island, crammed with food and survival tools. But how long can he stand the silence and solitude?
Whereas Tom Hanks in Cast Away had a volleyball, in The Night Eats the World Sam starts to talk to a locked-up zombie. Robinson Crusoe in a blood-spattered Paris.
Film details
Productieland
France
Jaar
2017
Festivaleditie
IFFR 2018
Lengte
94'
Medium/Formaat
DCP
Taal
English, Norwegian
Première status
International premiere
Director
Dominique Rocher
Producer
Carole Scotta
Screenplay
Guillaume Lemans, Dominique Rocher, Jérémie Guez
Sound design
Nicolas Becker, Maxence Dussère, Vincent Cosson
Principal cast
Anders Danielsen Lie, Golshifteh Farahani, Denis Lavant, Sigrid Bouaziz, David Kammenos