DARK NIGHT Documentary Screens This Weekend at Webster University

DARK NIGHT screens Friday March 3rd through Sunday March 5th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The movie starts at 7:30 all three evenings.

A haunting, artfully understated critique of American gun culture, Tim Sutton’s third feature is loosely based around the 2012 massacre in Aurora, Colorado that took place during a multiplex screening of “The Dark Knight Rises.” Employing a mesmerizing documentary-style technique and a cast of non-professional actors, DARK NIGHT follows the activities of six strangers over the course of one day, from sunrise to midnight, the shooter among them. Shot in Sarasota, Florida and lensed by veteran French DP Hélène Louvart (PINA, THE BEACHES OF AGNES), the dream-like visuals articulate both Sutton’s carefully crafted landscapes and the characters’ sense of alienation and suburban malaise. Winner of the Lanterna Magica Award at the Venice Film Festival following its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, DARK NIGHT is essential viewing, not only for art-house filmgoers, but for anyone invested in the debate over gun violence in America as well.

The critics love DARK NIGHT:

Entertainment Weekly says:

“A haunting, thought-provoking piece of work, made infinitely more powerful by all the things it chooses not to show.”

The Village Voice says:

“Sutton has a poet’s vision, rendering familiar American nowheres into dreamscapes.”

Brooklyn Magazine calls it a:

“A contemporary look at the disaffection and desensitization that have long been native to American suburbia.”

Admission is:

$6 for the general public
$5 for seniors, Webster alumni and students from other schools
$4 for Webster University staff and faculty

Free for Webster students with proper I.D.

Advance tickets are available from the cashier before each screening or contact the Film Series office (314-246-7525) for more options. The Film Series can only accept cash or check.

The Webster University Film Series site can be found HERE

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