Night Watch::Nochnoi Dozor
Saturday night I went down to Cinemapolis to see Night Watch. It’s a Russian film that was released a couple of years ago there, but has just been released in to limited distribution under the Fox Searchlight Pictures label. I had seen some previews for it last summer and had been highly intrigued by it. It’s the first movie in a trilogy (Day Watch, the second movie was released in Russia in 2005, Dusk Watch, the third movie will be released this year in Russia) about the classic Good vs. Evil. It also has vampires, witches, shape shifters, and a kid with a perpetual nose bleed.
This movie certainly lived up to my expectations. In fact it exceeded them. It’s a subtitled film, but they worked the subtitles in to the movie. In some scenes where the subtitles are in red they sort of drift away like blood in the water. It’s pretty clever and ads to the entire feel of the film. Continue on to read more with some minor spoilers.
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