![]() ![]() Jake Gyllenhaal's compelling performance of a sociopath hell-bent on success gives us the creeps. Lou converts tragedies and accidents into a money machine, and with each new video, his obsession - and his ego - grow. He monitors police radios, in search of fires, homicides and other tragedies to film, then sells the footage to the highest bidder. Flanked by freelance camera crews, who specialize in filming murder and mayhem, Lou infiltrates the dangerous world of night crawling. Ambitious and driven, he believes, “If you want to win the lottery, you have to make the money to buy a ticket.” And he finds his ticket in L.A.’s nocturnal underbelly. Lou Bloom ( Jake Gyllenhaal), a petty thief, discovers a new career as a cameraman. Dan Gilroy’s first feature film probes the world of media manipulation in a drama with touches of satire of the media and American capitalism. The off-competition Nightcrawler, renamed Night Call for its French release, closed the first day at PIFFF. Morgana O’Reilly’s pugnacious performance as the rebellious daughter – she won’t let her mother and stepfather watch Coronation Street – elicits more sympathy, perhaps because we feel her pain in that dreadful place. Housebound strikes the balance between funny and creepy, with unexpected twists and idiosyncratic characters. ![]() Kylie, with the assistance of her probation officer, Amos ( Glen-Paul Waru), decides to prove otherworldly manifestations are indeed real. According to her blabbermouth mother Miriam ( Rima Te Wiata), evil spirits inhabit the family domicile according to Kylie’s weirdo psychologist, the noises that she hears are a figment of her overactive imagination. A former halfway house, she soon discovers its walls hide secrets. Located in some distant isolated village, her childhood home creaks until it makes her crack. The judge orders her to house arrest for eight months at her mother's home, a verdict that both surprises and appalls Kylie.
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