Friday Night (2002)
Directed by Claire Denis
The night before she is to move in with her boyfriend, a young Parisian woman picks up a male hitchhiker, leading to a highly charged and impossibly erotic detour.
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The first act of High Life is Denis at her most tender, recalling the loving embraces of the one-night-stand lovers from her 2002 film Friday Night , albeit in a familial context.
As in Bertolucci's enraptured "Besieged," "Vendredi Soir" has very little dialogue.
But Denis’ atmospherics, as usual, carry the day: Noir is a game of hard shadows and hard cases, but Denis (Beau Travail, Friday Night) and her team of regular collaborators—cinematographer Agnès Godard, many of the actors, and Tindersticks, who contribute an essential mood-building score—approach it with a seductive delicacy that’s both fitting for the genre and distinct from it.
As comparison, I'd direct the reader to French filmmaker Claire Denis' movie Friday Night, a good though not great film that, by visualizing its male/female one-night stand, ends up trapping itself emotionally.