Rather dull and disappointing. A man and woman meet and have a one night stand during a Parisian mass transit strike. It might be a tad more interesting if we knew a single thing about either of these people, but it's all kept very anonymous (we know that the woman is moving in with her boyfriend, but we don't know anything about the guy, who embodies the physical stereotypes that won the French that offensive, amphibian slur). With such a paper-thin scenario, the film doesn't seem like anything more than the sexual fantasy of a very unimaginative woman. You know, meet a handsome stranger and have no-strings-attached sex during which the guy does all the foreplay stuff, takes his sweet time and after which he doesn't take you for granted. There are no real emotions in the story, so Denis lets the music pick up the writing's slack. The film-making is pretty good, but also fairly cliché modern European cinematics. Denis has yet to impress me much.
Review of Friday Night
