When Night Is Falling

When Night Is Falling

  • Director: Patricia Rozema
  • Countries of origin: Canada
  • Language: English
  • Release date: November 17, 1995
  • Runtime: 1 hour 34 minutes
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Cuando cae la noche
  • "Quand tombe la nuit" is a romantic film directed by Patricia Rozema and starring Pascal Basri and Henry Czerny .
    The film tells the story of the seminary professor Camille preparing to marry the theologian Martin, who has been with him for many years. Unexpectedly, a circus performer Patrice who travels around the world breaks into their world, causing Camille to gradually lose his life. A story of self-control, facing the erotic choice between heterosexuality and homosexuality.

    Details

    • Release date November 17, 1995
    • Filming locations Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Production companies Alliance Communications Corporation, Crucial Pictures, Ontario Film Development Corporation

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $919,671

    Gross worldwide

    $919,671

    Movie reviews

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    • By Moshe 2022-12-29 15:19:15

      light and music, cold and warm

      The first time I saw this movie came from a chance encounter in a video store in 1998. At that time, I was a young man who only liked action movies. Who knew that after watching it once, "Night" left an indelible impression on me .
      I like the atmosphere in the film the most--one word: cold. At the beginning of the film, the old priest said outside with white breath that cold can make the mind pure. Gray sky, tall poplar trees, black high pressure Wires, layers of repressed cello. In...

    • By Trevor 2022-12-27 09:40:59

      come to be my love

      dream.

      This is simply a dream. From their meeting to the end of the story, every moment of getting along is a dream.

      The two heroines are quite brilliant, fully witnessing that women will be more beautiful with secrets. When night falls, it is time for the secret to begin. Camilla, guarding her beliefs and theology, her routine, everything. The woman in the white snow of Russia is as cold and charming as a princess. Patricia, a circus performer with a strange temperament,...

    • By Jordyn 2022-12-26 15:22:38

      All the love is in the little details

      One of my important criteria for judging romance films is whether they explain clearly the ins and outs of love and the unevenness of love.

      "Just because I saw you more in the crowd" is the laziest love account. There is no universal formula for love, which does not mean that the argumentation process can be omitted.

      For Camille, love is the kindness and warmth of a stranger in a public laundry room handing over a...

    • By Noelia 2022-11-25 13:16:02

      very old but beautiful

      When I watched this movie, I always felt that it was very familiar. I've never seen it, but it's familiar. To use Brother Bao's words: "Although I haven't seen it before, I look at Mian Shan. Even if it's an old acquaintance in my heart, it's okay to just see each other far away today." At that time, I didn't know why this happened. It was only later that I remembered that many of the clips in "Butterfly" were simply copied from then on.
      Because I watched "Butterfly" first, the impact...

    • By Ettie 2022-11-23 21:42:32

      nice!

      The title of the film comes from the epilogue of Bergman's film "Fanny and Alexander": "When the night falls, all the evil spirits are all around...". The writer/director is a woman, and I'm guessing she must be gay.
      For a work, whether the author is male or female cannot be concealed. When it comes to subtle gay works, it's clear at a glance whether the author is straight or curved. The most obvious manifestation is that the lily-oriented animation also has a male-to-female...

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    • By Melyssa 2023-09-26 14:29:55

      The sea, although cold, is so wide. Even under the darkness of night, the aura of sin was flourishing, and it was silent to the bottom of the sea, and finally calmed down. She still wakes her up with her own warmth, so deeply...

    • By Lela 2023-09-18 11:23:27

      When the heroine is beautiful, she looks a bit like Winona. Flatiron dance is good, but the plot is...

    • By Karina 2023-09-17 13:12:08

      Harmony of classic movies. Race, religion, gender, and age can subvert all traditional views on love. Two opposing women came together in harmony, stimulating all my potential lily...

    • By Lacey 2023-09-05 16:38:35

      Three and a half. The front is good, the irresistible attraction between the two women is very well expressed, the composition of the first kiss is beautiful, and there are several heroine fantasies and montages interspersed from self-struggling to consciousness awakening, but unfortunately the rhythm behind It's messed up, the final collection is faster, but fortunately the surreal processing at the end is very...

    • By Justen 2023-07-19 11:14:06

      Both women are beautiful, almost completely different. Beautiful shot, beautiful. The soundtrack is nice and very...

    Movie plot

    The heroine Camille is a professor at the seminary and is about to marry Martin, a theologian who has been with her for many years. Unexpectedly, a traveling circus performer, Patrice, breaks into the world of the two. Patrice's zealous indulgence forms a subtle attraction for Camille, who lives in a serious religious atmosphere, making her gradually lose her self-control and face the erotic choice between heterosexuality and...
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    Background creation

    The Canadian film "Quand tombe la nuit" is a gay film about female romances in Western society. The heroine Camilla is placed at the critical point of eroticism, with austere theological teachings on one side and a mysterious circus of Luo Zhi's dreams on the other, and Patricia's intrusion is like a prophet who provokes her full senses. Guiding, developing, and waiting for the moment of decision, the two will eventually work together...
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    Movie quotes

    • Camille: Listen, I love to look at you. I love to talk to you. I love you openess, I love what you do, I love... I love you.

      Petra: Everything gets ordinary, eventually.

      Camille: Ordinary with you would be... wild.

    • Camille: I want to go away with you.

      Petra: What would you do in a circus?

      Camille: I have a few ideas.

      Petra: I'm outgoing. You're not.

      Camille: I can be outgoing.

      Petra: I smoke pot.

      Camille: I drink... cherry brandy.

    • Petra: Are you ashamed of me? Am I your dirty little secret?

      Camille: Petra, I just don't like being laughed at.

      Petra: Oh, really? Well, aren't you cute? Hey, good luck sweetheart, because here are some of the kindest people in the world, Camille. If you can't handle a little fun here, what are you going to do when the real mean fuckers of the world start laughing at you? 'Cause they will, you know. They'll be using it against you and they'll be laughing up a storm, Camille.

      Camille: Not if you show it with a little dignity.

      Petra: Dignity? What could be more dignified than dancing with the person I adore?