Sometimes, Americanized remakes can work — despite my own hesitances against them — and I am hoping that is the case for Sleepless, an adaptation/remake of the intense and slick 2010 French thriller Nuit Blance (Sleepless Night). The first trailer has arrived for Baran bo Odar‘s take on the material, starring Jamie Foxx as a cop with deep ties to the criminal underworld who must probe a seedy nightclub to find his kidnapped son. Odar has three features under his belt before this one, and his growing skill in tandem with the solid cast should hopefully offering a thrilling entry into the single-day-film canon, along with doing Frédéric Jardin’s source material justice.
Foxx has got the tough-but-wounded swagger down pat, selling the desperation and hard-toothed resolve of a father on the brink. Sleepless is lensed by Mihai Malaimare Jr. (The Master, A Walk Among The Tombstones) who seems to have...
Foxx has got the tough-but-wounded swagger down pat, selling the desperation and hard-toothed resolve of a father on the brink. Sleepless is lensed by Mihai Malaimare Jr. (The Master, A Walk Among The Tombstones) who seems to have...
- 10/5/2016
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
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