Eat the Night

Play trailer

1:42

Eat the Night

2025

1h 47m

Drama

Romance

Mystery & Thriller

LGBTQ+

Play Trailer

Watchlist

Watchlist

Tomatometer

Popcornmeter

67%

Tomatometer

24 Reviews

Popcornmeter

Fewer than 50 Ratings

Pablo, a small-time dealer, and his teenage sister Apolline have forged an unbreakable bond through their shared obsession with the online video game Darknoon. When Pablo falls for the mysterious Night, he gets swept up in their liaison, abandoning his sister to deal with the impending shutdown of their digital haven alone. As Pablo's reckless choices provoke the wrath of a dangerous rival gang, the end of their virtual life draws near, upending their reality....

Critics Consensus

Ambitious but wildly uneven, Eat the Night delivers a striking mix of gritty realism and stylized fantasy that often struggles to unify its multiple narrative threads.

Read Critics Reviews

Payton McCarty-Simas

Autostraddle

02/19/2025

While the film certainly falls short of generating the deep wells of feeling to which it aspires, primarily through its most genre-standard plot points, its voice is still striking, its characterizations memorable.

Go to Full Review

Alison Foreman

IndieWire

01/13/2025

B-

The result is at once accosting and strangely affirming, narrowly saved by a strong cast of performers and moody cinematography that navigate the movie’s thinner aspects and more ambiguous moments with relative ease.

Go to Full Review

J. Kim Murphy

Variety

01/10/2025

What becomes of someone when all their self-improvement is wiped away? Even through a thin plot, “Eat the Night” earns its noir stripes by staring into that abyss.

Go to Full Review

Dave Giannini

Geek Vibes Nation

Jul 19

6.5/10

Eat The Night is both passionate and bleak. This is a combination that takes real mastery of both writing and direction.

Go to Full Review

Matthew St. Clair

Cinematic Words of a Chaotic Gemini (Substack)

05/04/2025

B-

An ambitious directorial effort with plenty on its mind and plenty of visual flair, Eat the Night would've benefited more by delving further into fantasy.

Go to Full Review

Kathy Fennessy

Video Librarian Magazine

05/02/2025

3/5

The parts of the film, which range from the grittiness of the provincial environment to the vibrant stylization of the game, don't always fit together as well as they should, though the avatars become more realistic with time.

Go to Full Review

Read all reviews

Garry A

@heavyg Aug 2

The two guys who get involved with each other have great chemistry and sex scenes. I would have liked to see them live happily ever after. The ending is brutal.

See more

Big G

@BrickRawgers 04/16/2025

Terrible movie. How does this trash get greenlit?

See more

O g

@RT76089177 04/06/2025

Maybe I was just in a very good mood but thought it had an intangible yet exquisite quality. 'Je ne sais quoi' one might say...

See more

Read all reviews

Read More

Read Less

WRITE A REVIEW

EDIT REVIEW

POST RATING

Caroline Poggi

Director

Jonathan Vinel

Director

Théo Cholbi

Pablo

Erwan Kepoa Falé

Night

Lila Gueneau

Apolline

Caroline Poggi

Screenwriter

Femme

93%

82%

Femme

Watchlist

TRAILER

for Femme

Call Me by Your Name

95%

86%

Call Me by Your Name

Watchlist

Cocoon

100%

83%

Cocoon

Watchlist

TRAILER

for Cocoon

Unicorns

78%

92%

Unicorns

Watchlist

TRAILER

for Unicorns

High Tide

100%

89%

High Tide

Watchlist

Discover more movies and TV shows.

View More

Eat The Night: Trailer 1

1:42

View more videos

View more photos

Synopsis

Pablo, a small-time dealer, and his teenage sister Apolline have forged an unbreakable bond through their shared obsession with the online video game Darknoon. When Pablo falls for the mysterious Night, he gets swept up in their liaison, abandoning his sister to deal with the impending shutdown of their digital haven alone. As Pablo's reckless choices provoke the wrath of a dangerous rival gang, the end of their virtual life draws near, upending their reality....

Director: Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel
Producer: Thomas Verhaeghe, Mathieu Verhaeghe, Juliette Schrameck
Screenwriter: Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel, Guillaume Bréaud
Distributor: Altered Innocence
Production Co: Atelier de Production
Genre: Drama, Romance, Mystery & Thriller, LGBTQ+
Original Language: French
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 10, 2025, Limited
Runtime: 1h 47m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)