‘O Beautiful Night’ Is A Strange Yet Slight Trip Into The Underworld [Berlin Review]
A depressed musician has a chance encounter with a man claiming to be Death, sending the two on a wild journey through the night in Xavier Böhm’s German directorial debut “O Beautiful Night,” which just premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. Playing out as a twisted updating of “After Hours,” filtered through a neon aesthetic that recalls, if anything, Gasper Noe’s “Enter the Void” (minus the heavy psychedelic interludes), Bohm’s film is a slight addition to the sub-genre of all-night films, grounding the possibility of a supernatural run-in with “Death” and transforming it into something akin to a buddy film.
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- 2/15/2019
- by Christian Gallichio
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