Nocturama

This is a French film from 2017, from writer and director, Bertrand Bonello. It was recommend to me by an English faculty member from Carleton - what's the world coming to, French films being recommended by the English department. Chaos! Speaking of which, "Nocturama" is exactly about this, manufacturing chaos! A group of young  people, for reasons maybe even unclear to themselves, decide to stick it to society, stick it to France, and go blow some stuff up in Paris. And that's what they do and after that, they go hide out, after-hours, in a multilevel department store in downtown. If you took "Dog Day Afternoon," and Gus Van Sant's "Elephant" and crossed them with "The Breakfast Club" and "Dawn of the Dead" you would get "Nocturama." I feel it's a commentary on the restless nature and the idealism of youth conflicted and contrasted against the materialism of contemporary society - look at me being all confusing and academic English-like - ha! What it is, it's riveting stuff. Gripping viewing. Another film to check out on Criterion or at your local video store.