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1,000 Times Good Night

Original title: Tusen ganger god natt
  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 57m
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1,000 Times Good Night (2013)
Rebecca is one of the world's top war photographers. She must weather a major emotional storm when her husband refuses to put up with her dangerous life any longer. He and their young daughters need Rebecca, who, however, loves both her family and her work...
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Rebecca is one of the world's top war photographers. She must weather a major emotional storm when her husband refuses to put up with her dangerous life any longer.Rebecca is one of the world's top war photographers. She must weather a major emotional storm when her husband refuses to put up with her dangerous life any longer.Rebecca is one of the world's top war photographers. She must weather a major emotional storm when her husband refuses to put up with her dangerous life any longer.

  • Director
    • Erik Poppe
  • Writers
    • Erik Poppe
    • Harald Rosenløw-Eeg
    • Jan Trygve Røyneland
  • Stars
    • Juliette Binoche
    • Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
    • Lauryn Canny
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.0/10
    8.4K
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    • Director
      • Erik Poppe
    • Writers
      • Erik Poppe
      • Harald Rosenløw-Eeg
      • Jan Trygve Røyneland
    • Stars
      • Juliette Binoche
      • Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
      • Lauryn Canny
    • 40User reviews
    • 86Critic reviews
    • 57Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 6 wins & 14 nominations total

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    Juliette Binoche
    Juliette Binoche
    • Rebecca
    Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
    Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
    • Marcus
    Lauryn Canny
    Lauryn Canny
    • Stephanie
    Adrianna Cramer Curtis
    • Lisa
    Maria Doyle Kennedy
    Maria Doyle Kennedy
    • Theresa
    Larry Mullen Jr.
    Larry Mullen Jr.
    • Tom
    Mads Ousdal
    Mads Ousdal
    • Stig
    Chloë Annett
    Chloë Annett
    • Jessica
    Bush Moukarzel
    • Brian
    Eve Macklin
    Eve Macklin
    • Brian's Girlfriend
    Des Nealon
    • Elderly Man
    Jonathan Byrne
    • Marine Biologist
    Najat Azgar
    • Suicide Bomber
    Zoubida Akif
    • Ariana
    • (as Zoubida Afik)
    Jameela Shafaq
    • Translator
    Omar Elmouden
    • Suicide Bomber
    Caitríona Ní Mhurchú
    • Teacher in Dublin
    Peter Sexton
    • Stephanie's Classmate
    • Director
      • Erik Poppe
    • Writers
      • Erik Poppe
      • Harald Rosenløw-Eeg
      • Jan Trygve Røyneland
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    8egil_elias

    Loved it from start to end

    I came into the movies with an open mind, without any knowledge of either the plot, setting or premise of the movie. The opening left me mesmerized, starting off with a silent photographer documenting a ceremonial initiation of a suicide bomber, to later become hurt in the subsequent IED attack. The following complications and insight to the photographer's life really builds up a powerful and emotional drama that mostly plays out within the borders of her own home.

    From the reaction of her husband to their children's acceptance of their mother's dangerous occupation, every scene feels truly genuine. In addition to being a perfectly acted and directed movie, the cinematography is, to say the least, absolutely astonishing and beautiful. From start to end, the movie feels like a beautiful painting, with no expense spared on the details.

    The most refreshing feature of this particular movie is the way the story is delivered, in a non-predictable fashion freed from the basic "Hollywood-recipe". To say the least, this is by far one of the best European movie released in years, and I am yet to see a movie this original, captivating, refreshing and complex from Hollywood. 10/10 stars, absolutely a must-see for all movie enthusiasts that appreciate something else than recycled, brain-dead black and white portraits of reality that Hollywood keeps producing.
    9Reno-Rangan

    Caught between passion and family.

    Frankly, I never knew what the movie is about. What I expected was a beautiful romantic drama and I got a movie that defined someone's struggle over her passion and its reality. After seeing opening scene I thought it would be another movie about war similar to the '5 Days of War'. I am glad it was so distinct which was partially based on the director own experiential story when he served as a photojournalist in the '80s. It is a jointly produced movie by Ireland and Norway in English language.

    Rebecca is a passionate war zone photojournalist and her daring attitude make her one of the finest on the field. Like always her latest journey takes place in the war torn city of Kabul, Afghanistan. She follows a suicide bomber to cover up the story where she gets injured. After the accident the whole story flips back to her home in Ireland where it chronicles the worried husband and the two children who are very affectionate of her. This is the time where she has to choose the side, the professional? Or the family? The stay at home during recovery makes her realize the worth of her life. So the movie's end strikes with the path she opts to travel forth.

    ''Sometimes it's hard to stay at home. I mean, the one who stays at home has the hardest job.''

    Well, it served a message with the touch of melodrama. The story demonstrated family value on the right amount of each others love and care. The opening and the end scenes that take place in Afghanistan was so brutal and there's another one that takes place in Kenya. But bringing the reality on the screen as it happening some places of the world must be appreciated. It kind of makes you realize that someone is sacrificing their life to bring light on what's happening in the war zones. Like always, Juliette Binoche was good. It was her movie, her side of the story told when she was caught between the family who loves and the war that calls her.

    One of the fascinating thematic movie. Regarding the main role, you may think why she's not stopping the tragedy from happening. That's the journalism, when you have no power to act, just expose to the rest of the world. The combination of family drama and the conflict zone are like two different genres that brought together awesomely. The director's own experience helped to shape the movie well. Almost all the combat related scenes were so realistic as what he had seen is now letting us know through this film. I think this movie is a must see. The end scene makes us go speechless, woefully.
    9gradyharp

    'Someone must make the world see....'

    A film about a female investigative journalist is bound to raise a reaction among viewers, especially when the atrocities filmed are so brutal. But that is the point being made by writer/director Erik Poppe (with added written material by Harald Rosenløw-Eeg and Kirsten Sheridan). The main character in this story is Rebecca (a radiant and brilliant Juliette Binoche), one of the world's top war photographers. She must weather a major emotional storm when her husband Marcus (Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau) refuses to put up with her dangerous life any longer. He and their young daughters – especially Steph (Lauryn Canny) but also the much younger Lisa (Adrianna Cramer Curtis) - need Rebecca, who, however, loves both her family and her work. Rebecca has been angry, since a child, over the way people around the globe focus on the detritus of local news and pay little attention to the horrors that occur daily in the countries besieged by terror. Rebecca resolves to take Steph (at Steph's request) to Kenya where inadvertently they witness terrorist acts even though Rebecca had been promised the area was safe. The result of Rebecca's endangering her daughter results in her marriage dissolving, but other changes in Rebecca's smoldering anger and angst result also.

    The film is very well photographed and both Binoche and Coaster-Waldau are excellent. The supporting cast is strong (especially a very small bit part for Maria Doyle Kennedy) and the musical score by Armand Amar is deeply moving. The film places before us the incalculable struggles war correspondents face but at the same time it brings to out attention just how impossibly difficult life in troubled countries can be. Grady Harp December 14
    6l_rawjalaurence

    Intense Melodrama on the Pitfalls of War Photography

    War photographer Rebecca (Juliette Binoche) is one of the best at her job, obtaining the kind of pictures that invariably get published in western magazines as examples of the violence of conflicts in nonwestern areas such as Afghanistan or Kenya. The only snag is that Rebecca is so obsessed with her work that she cannot understand the damage she is doing to her family back in Ireland, especially her daughter Steph (Lauryn Canny).

    The conflict between personal and professional values forms the kernel of Erik Poppe's film. Yet thematically speaking the director is far more interested in prompting reflection on the photographer's trade. While Rebecca certainly shows a good deal of bravery in trying to get the best pictures, we also understand that she is something of a voyeur who actively enjoys intruding into her subjects' personal space. Her fondness for the close-up of suffering people is quite disconcerting, especially in a sequence taking place in the back of an SUV in Afghanistan. In political terms, she adopts a neocolonialist position of the westerner taking scopophilic pleasure in the power she exerts through her camera.

    Perhaps the film's most telling moment occurs back in Ireland, when Steph turns the camera on Rebecca and photographs her repeatedly. Rebecca cannot endure the experience of the lens pointing at her in such an intense manner and turns her head away, her eyes filling with tears. Would that Rebecca might understand that her subjects could feel much the same; but if she did so, then she would not be good at her job.

    Given the integrity with which Poppe examines this issue, it's rather sad that the film as a whole should be somewhat melodramatic. In the end the action descends into something of a tug-of-love battle between mother and family; at one point Rebecca bundles Steph and her younger sister Lisa (Adrianna Cramer Curtis) in a pathetic attempt to abduct them from their family home. Needless to say husband Marcus (Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau) foils the plot and eventually looks after the girls himself.

    The film makes a half-hearted attempt to draw a parallel between Rebecca's wanderlust and the rhythms of the tide (her daughter observes that the photographer is like the sea, coming and going), but unfortunately outstays its welcome: the last half-hour unfolds slowly but predictably towards an inevitable denouement. This is a shame, given the seriousness of its basic premise - almost as if director Poppe had lost the courage of his convictions.
    8samin-sadr

    How to decide in a dilemma?

    In a warm sunny day in Montreal I went to watch the very new arrival film "A Thousand Times Good Night". I had no idea how it would be impressive because I could not find much information through the web.

    All the people may encounter a paradoxical situation between their family and their job. This fact is more realizable when you are a war photographer. The first scenes of A Thousand Times Good Night are too devastating. You can feel the horror, anger, and self-sacrifice behavior in those Afghan extremists. It seems that the suicide bomber just jumped to her destiny as she had been told to do and in parallel she was scared to death. These paradoxical situations just began from the very first scene and moves through the film. The photographer, Rebecca, had her own dilemmas between her enthusiast and her family life. I think the symbolic scene which shows Rebecca plunging in reverse was frequently displayed to show how it would be difficult to decide in dilemmas. You may watch it or refuse to watch it but it worth to watch because this is life as it is!

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    • Trivia
      "A thousand time goodnight" is a line from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
    • Goofs
      When Rebecca and Marcus are walking hand in hand on the beach after drinking wine with his colleagues, the second shot is a frontal medium shot. In the upper left part of the shot, the sound operator's boom microphone is briefly, but clearly visible.
    • Quotes

      Rebecca: I have to find a way to finish it.

      Steph: When will it be finished?

      Rebecca: I made a big mess out of our lives. I hope one day you'll be able to forgive me.

      Steph: It would actually be easier if you were dead. Then we could, we could all just be sad together.

    • Connections
      Featured in The Graham Norton Show: Juliette Binoche/Ronnie Corbett/Ricky Gervais/Imelda May (2014)
    • Soundtracks
      Daring to Love
      Original song performed by Ane Brun

      Music and lyrics by Ane Brun

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    • Release date
      • October 24, 2014 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Norway
      • Ireland
      • Sweden
    • Official sites
      • Juliette Binoche: The Art of Being - Official Fansite
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Languages
      • Norwegian
      • English
    • Also known as
      • A Thousand Times Good Night
    • Filming locations
      • Ireland
    • Production companies
      • Paradox
      • Newgrange Pictures
      • Film i Väst
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    • Budget
      • €5,284,200 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $53,895
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $24,120
      • Oct 26, 2014
    • Gross worldwide
      • $2,549,568
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    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      • 1h 57m(117 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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