Nocturama makes an intriguingly cinematic case for showing over telling. But as a depiction of how, and why, terrorists (or anarchists or whatever they are) can take down a city, it falls apart in the face of what happens in the real world.
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Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center.
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A disturbingly relevant snapshot of contemporary tensions.
Nocturama is enthralling until the bitter end, but it's so hard to distill its purpose that you can't tell if the film is opaque or if it simply offers nothing to see.
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