''Night'' is a 2007 Australian
documentary film, co-produced and directed by Lawrence Johnston.
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Scenes of Australia filmed at night, including
Sydney
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,
Melbourne,
Brisbane and a moonrise over
Uluru. Various Australians are interviewed about their emotional connections and life experiences relating to the night time.
Critical response
Leigh Paatsch from ''
Herald Sun
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'' gave the film three and a half out of five stars saying that while "the whole package is occasionally too pretentious and pretty for its own good" there were "moments of sublime contemplation captured throughout Night that are rarely (if ever) felt in an Australian film."
The
Sunday Age
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's Tom Ryan also gave the film three and a half out of five stars. He writes "If Johnston's ambitious work sometimes gets a bit pompous, it also displays, along with the striking cinematography, a keen anthropological instinct and a real intelligence." The
Courier Mail's Des Partridge gave it three out of five stars closing his review by saying "At only 82 minutes including credits, Night scrapes in as a feature, and the repetitive film seems longer."
Writing in the
Daily Telegraph
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, Tracey Prisk gave it three out of five stars, calling it a "visual fest" but stating "it's hard to imagine that Night will have such resonance on the big screen." Simon Weaving from the
Canberra Times
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History
''The Canberra Times'' was launched in ...
notes that "the film as a whole is a flawed curiosity rather than a stunning piece."
Accolades
Cezary Skubiszewski
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Career
Skubiszewski first m ...
's soundtrack won the 2008 Screen Music Award for Best Music for a Documentary and was nominated for the 2008 AIRA Award for Best Original Soundtrack/Cast/Show Album and the 2009 International Film Music Critics Award for Best Original Score for a Documentary Film.
Follow-up
In 2015, Johnston released a
spiritual sequel to ''Night'' entitled ''Neon''. That film covers the history of neon lights around the world, presenting hypnotic footage mixed with interviews in a similar fashion.
References
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2007 films
2007 documentary films
2000s English-language films
Australian documentary films
English-language documentary films
2000s Australian films