
To the Night
A childhood tragedy consumes a young Brooklyn artist in To the Night, the English-language debut from Austrian musician and semi-experimental director Peter Brunner (Those Who Fall Have Wings). This former student of Michael Haneke has crafted a psychological drama that’s hard to watch as the protagonist — played by Caleb Landry Jones at his most intense — both consciously and subconsciously tries to find a way to deal with the fact that his parents died in tragic circumstances when he was a child.
A Karlovy Vary competition title, this will travel to other festivals mainly on the strength of the name of co-producer and editing consultant Ulrich Seidl, as well as cinephiles’ familiarity with Jones, who last year alone co-starred in Get Out, Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri and The Florida Project. However, the project might be a tad too experimental and the protagonist too unlikable for more commercial pickups.
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Director: Peter Brunner
Actors: Abbey Lee, Caleb Landry Jones, Christos Haas, Eléonore Hendricks, Jana McKinnon