Toute Une Nuit
- Thu, Mar 27
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Chantal Akerman Run Time: 90 min. Release Year: 1982 Language: French
Starring: Angelo Abazoglou, Aurore Clément, Frank Aendenboom, Natalia Akerman, Paul Allio
Chantal Akerman Month winds down with 1982’s Toute Une Nuit, a hypnotic, atmospheric portrait of longing and fleeting connections over the course of a single summer night in Brussels.
The film unfolds as a series of vignettes depicting strangers, lovers, and lonely individuals moving through dimly lit streets, cafés, and apartments, engaging in brief encounters—some passionate, some melancholic, some wordless. Akerman’s poetic, observational style turns these ephemeral moments into a deeply immersive and evocative cinematic experience.
With minimal dialogue and an emphasis on gesture, movement, and mood, Toute Une Nuit captures the restless energy of nighttime urban life, evoking a sense of longing, impermanence, and the quiet intensity of human relationships.