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Nobody Wants the Night

Endless Night
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Film poster
Directed by Isabel Coixet
Produced by Jaume Roures
Written by Miguel Barros
Starring Juliette Binoche
Rinko Kikuchi
Gabriel Byrne
Music by Lucas Vidal
Cinematography Jean-Claude Larrieu
Edited by Elena Ruiz
Production
companies
Mer Film
New Art Productions
Noodles Production
One More Movie
Distributed by Filmax (Spain),
Release date
  • 5 February 2015 (2015-02-05) (Berlin)
  • 30 October 2015 (2015-10-30) (Spain)
Running time
118 minutes
Country Spain
France
Bulgaria
Language English

Endless Night (Spanish: Nadie quiere la noche) is a 2015 drama film directed by Isabel Coixet. It was selected to open the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. The film is set in 1908 in Greenland and is an international co-production between Spain, France and Bulgaria.

The film premiered with the title Nobody wants the Night. Following poor reviews and sales the film was recut by Coixet and released under the title Endless Night.

Greenland, 1908. Josephine, confident and bold wife of famous Arctic explorer Robert Peary, embarks on a dangerous journey in pursuit of her husband who is seeking a route to the North Pole.

The film received negative reviews after its Berlin premiere. Peter Bradshaw from The Guardian gave the film two stars out of five and observed that "[t]he film is possessed of blandly humanistic flavours, new-agey gestures and quaint stereotypes".The Hollywood Reporter called it "inconsistent" and "a mixed bag". In his review for Variety, Guy Lodge wrote that "[the film] is dramatically as pallid and lifeless as the frozen tundra on which it takes place".Indiewire's Jessica Kiang criticized the script and Coixet's direction, adding that "whenever it threatens to find its way, it soon loses it again".

The film received a warmer reception in Coixet's native Spain after its November release, getting three and four-star reviews from outlets such as El Mundo, Cinemanía and La Vanguardia.


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