NIGHT SHIFT
| 2020 – 99′ – Drama / Romance –
Written and Directed by Anne Fontaine.
Starring Omar Sy, Virginie Efira,
Grégory Gadebois, Payman Maadi.
In French with English subtitles.
A Distrib Films U.S. release. |
In this moody Police drama set in Paris, Virginie, Erik and Aristide work as police officers in a local brigade, trying to hold their personal and emotional lives together while dealing with daily occurrences of violence in homes and on the streets. One night, they are assigned an unusual mission and must drive a migrant back to the border for unspecified reasons. On their way to the airport, Virginie discovers the prisoner will be sentenced to death if he goes back to his country. Faced with an unbearable dilemma, she starts to question their mission… They have the night to decide one man’s fate.