{"id":9284,"date":"2021-09-13T23:26:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T23:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=9284"},"modified":"2021-11-29T17:30:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T17:30:21","slug":"the-night-doctor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/the-night-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"THE NIGHT DOCTOR (M\u00c9DECIN DE NUIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1631575255196{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\n<h1 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">THE NIGHT DOCTOR<br \/>\n(M\u00c9DECIN DE NUIT)<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=&#8221;20&#8243;][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; accent_color=&#8221;#d41953&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1633395426644{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Friday, November 5<\/strong> &#8211; Truffaut Theatre \u2013 6:10 pm<br \/>\n<em>(Screening ends at 7:32 pm)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>FILM NOIR SERIES<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/tickets-butt.png&#8221; image_size=&#8221;full&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1633468297347{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #d41953;\">Presented in Association with:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Be For Films<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; accent_color=&#8221;#d41953&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1631575466263{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]<strong><span style=\"color: #d41953;\">U.S. Premiere<\/span><\/strong> | France | 2021 | Film Noir, Drama | 82 min | In French with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directed by:<\/strong> Elie Wajeman<br \/>\n<strong>Written by:<\/strong> Agn\u00e8s Feuvre, Elie Wajeman, Vincent Macaigne<br \/>\n<strong>Produced by:<\/strong> George Bermann (Partizan Films), St\u00e9phanie Bermann, Alexis Durguerian (Domino Films)<br \/>\n<strong>Cinematography:<\/strong> David Chizallet, No\u00e9mie Gillot<br \/>\n<strong>Film Editing:<\/strong> B\u00e9atrice Herminie, Benjamin Weill<br \/>\n<strong>Score:<\/strong> Evgueni Galperine, Sacha Galperine<br \/>\n<strong>Cast:<\/strong> Vincent Macaigne (Micka\u00ebl Kourtchine),\u00a0Sara Giraudeau (Sofia),\u00a0Pio Marma\u00ef (Dimitri), Sarah Le Picard (Sacha Courtchine), Florence Janas (Anna), Lou Lampros (Nad\u00e8ge Rocher)<br \/>\n<strong>International Sales:<\/strong> Be for Films<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cast spectacularly against type, actor Vincent Macaigne is riveting as he cruises through the mean streets of Paris into its seedy underbelly, a labyrinthine world of opioid junkies and pharmacist-abetted drug trafficking&#8230; not as a Philip Marlow- or Travis Bickle-type character, but as a \u201cnight doctor.\u201d Alternating documentary-like house calls to ailing Parisians \u2014 the purported nuts and bolts of our hero\u2019s profession \u2014 with backseat examinations and bootleg prescriptions, <strong>Elie Wajeman<\/strong>\u2019s gritty, at-times ferocious, film noir recounts the existential crisis of the doctor in question, as he struggles to save lives and maintain his medical ethics&#8230; against all odds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Co-writer\/director <strong>Elie Wajeman<\/strong> made his first short film, <em>Los Angeles<\/em>, in 2008. 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