SummaryMady (Jonathan Feltre) – a student by day, locksmith by night– receives an emergency call from a young woman to open a lock. But the door the young woman wants to open isn’t hers, and the bag of cash she runs away with isn’t hers either. It belongs to Yannick (Romain Duris), a ruthless mob boss who blames Mady and will stop at nothing to retrieve... Read More
Directed By:Michiel Blanchart
Written By:Michiel Blanchart, Gilles Marchand, Laurent Brandenbourger
Night Call
Metascore
Generally Favorable
67
User score
Mixed or Average
5.0
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
80% Positive
8 Reviews
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20% Mixed
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Jan 22, 2025
80
Blanchart proves himself adept at giving all his ensemble various shading, shifting the audience’s allegiances and making his film much more than the usual brutal actioner.
Jan 17, 2025
78
Blanchart’s not reinventing any wheels – if anything, there’s a certain pleasure to be had from his decision not to follow the current trend of trying to simulate a real-time effect.
Jan 17, 2025
70
A fun, high-octane action movie about a chase against time through a fascinating city.
Jan 16, 2025
70
The film may be sticking to a familiar template, in which a regular Joe gets sucked into an underworld, but Blanchard’s snappy direction and the great mileage he gets out of the city’s nooks and crannies bumps it up the crime-action totem pole.
Jan 17, 2025
50
While “Night Call” delivers in the thriller department of the narrative, it stumbles when trying to tackle the politics of the day.
Jan 13, 2025
50
Michiel Blanchart’s film often feels like a patchwork of half-developed ideas, each more loosely and tenuously woven into the whole than the last.
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Jul 21, 2025
7
O ritmo é ótimo, e tem uma direção esperta também, especialmente nas perseguições nas ruas, com planos mais abertos. Mas é aquilo, o menino cometeu idiotices chaves, no cmeço e no final, ao passo que, de uma hora para outra, vira um semideus. E como um mafioso não tem sequer uma senha de bloqueio no celular?
Production Company:
- Boucan Productions
- Quad
- Gaumont
- France 3 Cinéma
- A Private View
- RTL Belgium
- Radio Télévision Luxembourg - Télévision Indépendante (RTL-TVI)
- VOO
- BE TV
- Proximus
- BNP Paribas Fortis Film Finance
- Canal+
- Ciné+
- France Télévisions
- Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
- Région de Bruxelles-Capitale
- Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF)
- MEDIA Programme of the European Union
- Take Five Invest
- Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge
Release Date:Jan 17, 2025
Duration:1 h 37 m
Awards
Magritte Awards, Belgium
• 10 Wins & 11 Nominations
Film Festival Oostende
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Belgian Film Critics Association
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
