Premiering in Locarno, the film follows six women in Paris as they cross the city after dark, intertwining dream, fiction and reality
By Rafaela Bassili, Catherine Weng
Beatrice Gibson, Courtesy of Claudia Campoli/Locarno Film Festival “I am a tone of voice, warming, shifting, pausing, changing, including, asserting, exulting, including, turning and including.” This quote by the poet Alice Notley opens “At Night,” British filmmaker Beatrice Gibson’s feature debut, which held its world premiere on Aug. 8 in Locarno’s Filmmakers of the Present program.
Gibson, who was a friend of Notley’s, took inspiration from the poet’s 1992 feminist epic “The Descent of Alette,” as well as Kathy Acker’s “Don Quixote,” to craft her story about a group of women crossing each other’s paths over the course of a single night in Paris.
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