Night Call 2024
Sinopsis
Mady, a student, works as a locksmith by night. He helps Claire get into her apartment and soon realizes that she lied to him about her identity and robbed something that belonged to a dangerous man, Yannick. Mady gets embroiled in a manhunt and will have one night to prove his innocence.
Cast
- Jonathan Feltre as Mady
- Natacha Krief as Claire
- Jonas Bloquet as Theo
- Romain Duris as Yannick
- Thomas Mustin as Remy
- Sam Louwyck as Greg
- Nabill Mallat as Will
- Claire Bodson as Gina
- Graham Guit as Abel
- Marco Maas as Sam
Review
Writer-director Michiel Blanchart’s Night Call is set against the backdrop of Black Lives Matter protests in Belgium, which offers Mady (Jonathan Feltre), the young locksmith at the center of the film, a neat and tidy reason for not going to the police after killing a man in self-defense. The victim is the real tenant of the apartment that a young woman named Claire (Natcha Krief) duped him into opening so she could steal a pile of cash. After dialing the cops, Mady quickly hangs up after seeing the demonstrations on the news, at which point one could be excused for thinking that our hapless hero has only just remembered that he’s Black
