One Minute to Midnight (Un Peu Avant Minuit)
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‘One Minute to Midnight’ Review: A French Intellectual Takes Stock of His Love Life in a Film That’s Charming, Melancholic and Parisian to a Fault
Melvil Poupaud stars in the fourth feature by critic turned director Nicolas Pariser, who based some of the movie on his own past as a journalist.
In what constitutes his most personal work, Nicolas Pariser points out the serious but just failure of an entire generation.
One Minute to Midnight (Un peu avant minuit) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
The Man Who Snubbed Women: Pariser Performs a Patriarchal Audit There’s something that feels a bit ‘too little, too late’ in Nicolas Pariser’s latest film Un peu avant minuit (One Minute to Midnight), reuniting him with Melvil Poupaud, the star of his 2015 thriller Le Grand Jeu (in which the actor also portrays a man struggling with the sunset of his prime). A somewhat standard, arguably inconsequential man finds himself reappraising his relatio…
"A BIT BEFORE MIDNIGHT"
THE STORY – A 49-year-old man questions the life he has lead after learning of the death of the father he never knew. THE CAST – Melvil Poupaud, Chiara Mastroianni, Anaïs Demoustier, Golshifteh Farahani, Léonie Simaga, Clara Pacini & Micha Lescot THE TEAM – Nicolas Pariser (Director/Writer) THE RUNNING TIME – 111 Minutes The fourth feature […]
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