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Campillo has a weakness in not knowing when to trim all the talking.

The director proves a master of the tragicomic as he observes one man's slip from midlife crisis to madness by way of obsession.

Production designer Olivier Radot and costume designer Pascaline Chavanne revel in the colors and textures of Seventies casino ambiance.

Cinematographer David Cailley, the director's brother, offers stark beauty and wicked humor.

It is in the second half of Nocturama - which takes place in a department store by night - that Bertrand Bonello's prowess at showing us worlds closing in on themselves comes to full force.

This film, like it's central character is wilfully complex and surprisingly fluid, wrong-footing us as we try to fill in the spaces between each vignette at the same time as drawing us to its thriller component.

What could have been a traditionally lavish costume drama has been pared down to highlight the erotic tension and sensuality

Never directly asking the question, but leaving liberté, égalité and fraternité to hang in the air between scenes and lines, Périot’s latest gives a voice to the voiceless, the disenfranchised, the forgotten.

This is focused filmmaking, not so much elegiac as lyric.