Oliver Smolders - Black Night (2005) - Freakyflicks

AKA "Nuit Noire" For screenshots, please see the NEW RELEASES thread in the Freakyflicks forum. Excerpted from the Twitchfilms review: Nuit Noire is about night's enveloping embrace. It honors the sheen on a beetle's jet black carapace. Set in an alternate reality where the world has been plunged into darkness because of an eternal eclipse -- which allows only a fleeting 15 seconds of sunshine in each 24-hour period -- Nuit Noire inherits a night logic of surrealistically-interpreted dream images (twinning abounds) and purposely contaminated chronologies (trajectories bifurcate). Polarities are staged and layered one upon the other: darkness and light, black and white, youth and adulthood, male and female, sex and death, desire and fear, blood and milk, history and memory. Memory itself is configured as either a theatrically staged enactment replete with arched proscenium or cinematically captured in grainy black and white by a voyeuristic Super8 camera. As night watchman, Smolders flips a coin whose two sides spin endlessly throughout the film, glinting in dim light. Heads or tails, either way; it's the flip of the coin that truly matters. Handsome repressed protagonist Oscar (Fabrice Rodriguez) works obsessively as an entomologist in a Natural History Museum hauntingly pervaded by a taxidermic spirit. He delights a bit too much and gains a little too much purpose in chloroforming and pinning beetles to the page. He's also having trouble with traumatic childhood memories that involve the death of his younger sister but its not quite clear if these "memories" aren?t just his disturbed imaginings. He's undergoing Jeunet-esque therapy where the doctor looks into his mind through a cone in his ear. While awaiting recovery, the ghosts of his imagined yesteryear contaminate and readjust his daily life. One day at the museum he encounters an African woman who seems to whisper telepathically to him in an incommunicable language. Before he can make it home, she sneaks into his apartment evading his crazed Russian landlady, climbs into his bed, proceeds to become pregnant and eventually pupates. That's right, pupates. Need I add that being an experienced entomologist comes in quite handy at this juncture? As Variety's Derek Elley describes it: "What finally emerges from the pupa is supposedly linked to his own childhood memories of himself, his sister and white-hunter father in colonial Africa (seen in B&W home movie footage), and sparks a longer spell of bright daylight outside." One might say consciousness is linked to daylight, as it has been in mythologies immemorial. === Not my rip. Originally uplaoded by KamuiX to Usenet (thus the filenames). Thanks, KamuiX! In addition to the film, this torrent includes: external English subs; deleted scene; two featurettes; and an interview with director Oliver Smolders. === --- File Information --- File Size (in bytes): 734,167,040 --- Container Information --- Base Type (e.g "AVI"): AVI(.AVI) Subtype (e.g "OpenDML"): OpenDML (AVI v2.0), Interleave (in ms): 42 Preload (in ms): 504 Audio alignment("split across interleaves"): Aligned Total System Bitrate (kbps): 0 Bytes Missing (if any): 0 Number of Audio Streams: 1 --- Video Information --- Video Codec Type(e.g. "DIV3"): xvid Duration (hh:mm:ss): 01:28:57 Frame Count: 127951 Frame Width (pixels): 608 Frame Height (pixels): 336 Display Aspect Ratio ("DAR"): 1.810 Frames Per Second: 25 Video Bitrate (kbps): 961 MPEG-4 ("MPEG-4" or ""): MPEG-4 B-VOP ("B-VOP" or ""): B-VOP --- Audio Information --- Audio Codec (e.g. "AC3"): 0x0055(MP3, ISO) MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio Codec Status (e.g. "Codec Is Installed"): Codec(s) are Installed Audio Sample Rate (Hz): 48000 Audio Bitrate(kbps): 131 Audio Bitrate Type ("CBR" or "VBR"): VBR Audio Channel Count (e.g. "2" for stereo): 2 *********************************** FREAKYFLICKS ************************************ FreakyFlicks is a free and open community dedicated to preserving and sharing cinematic art in the digital era. Our goal is to disseminate such works of art to the widest audience possible through the channels provided by P2P technology. The FreakyFlicks collection is limited to those films that have played an exceptional role in the history of cinema and its progression in becoming a great art. Films that are usually described as classic, cult, arthouse and avant-garde. If you have films that fit this description feel free to share them and participate in our community. All you need do is include this tag in your upload and join us at the forum to announce your release. http://freakyflicks.proboards54.com/ 'If we all seed just 1:1, give at least what we take, this torrent will NEVER DIE'

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 clownmonkey (2008-04-13)

Now, now. EBK, thank you for following up with all the IMdB links... TPB has a problem (at least with me) when I provide IMdB links when uploading the torrent; and then I have a problem with providing the IMdB link on the TPB page. If you check my postings at the Freakyflicks forum, I do provide the relevant information there. Thank you for providing it here.

 clownmonkey (2008-04-18)

@ebk: why don't I put the IMdB in the first comment? Because I am lazy. And also because I can count upon you to provide said first comment. La.

Oatmealinksplat (2008-05-16)

this version says texted language, but i dont see any subtitles when i play it, nor the option to turn them on...any ideas?? this film looks great so far but i want to know what they are saying!!!

Oatmealinksplat (2008-05-16)

ok never mind the text doesnt start until a bit through the movie, i dont know why though...

noxul (2008-05-19)

ekb:right on. Even though its a shitty site i check it for some info on film. And that results in me dl or not sometimes.

prah142 (2008-11-25)

please seed! Thanks in advance. Looking forward to seeing this movie, sounds brilliant

tofusoldier (2009-02-07)

I agree with metalcore, stop cluttering the comments page with imdb spam.
If anyone cares, they can easily look it up themselves.
If you want to help out "the community" make some rips of content that's not on here yet or create some new subtitles -assuming you're multilingual (if not, take the time to learn another language), or hell, go enjoy the sunlight outside.
Some projects are just never going to be appreciated by the public, and if you're going to pick a useless hobby like posting imdb links in forums and bitching out metal fans, assuming what they "will" or "will not" like based on stereotypes, then go kill yourself.
Seriously, if you've got nothing better to do, why bother living?
Videotape yourself doing it and leave a note in your pocket requesting that the video be posted on TPB. That way, someone can put a link to its imdb page, and I can tell them to kill themselves, and we'll have a recursive suicide algorithm and never have to see another fucking link to imdb again.
Cheers.

 mrspatula (2010-09-21)

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