[quote="kverty@KG"]
[quote]Let`s be honest, a director, lecturer (at the University of Liège) and professor at the INSAS and ISVK, who is also a tightrope walker, fly-fisher and member of the Zutists (a bunch of poets who know no rules), can only rouse our sympathy. In fact, the entire oeuvre of Olivier Smolders is one big travesty of cinematographic laziness. In his films (Novena, Adoration, Seuls, The amateur, Mort à Vignole) and books (Cinéma parlant, Ideas about film, In Praise of Pornography, Paul Nougé, à ecole de la ruse, David Lynch`s Eraserhead, Expérience de la bêtise), Smolders always interlards his thoughts about the moving image with humour and a large amount of surrealism. He will introduce us to his first long feature, Nuit Noire.
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Oscar, a conservator at the Natural Sciences Museum, passes the days exercising his passion for studying insects; if only there were still days. As long as people can remember, the sun only releases a few pathetic rays for fifteen seconds before noon. The rest of the time, the world is plunged into a night without end, a permanent eclipse. Coming home after work, Oscar finds an African woman in his bed. Suffering from a mysterious and incurable disease, she seems to have come to his place to die. Trapped between desire and repulsion, Oscar gradually abandons his life to terrifying phantoms.
from BIFF
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Interview with Smolders
Don`t know much about this, downloaded it from the pirate bay a while ago, the original uploader commented on the not so good quality. But the movie is fantastic. Final. Insects, strange fantasies / dreams /psychoanalytic sessions (with some guy staring into our heros ear with some strange device..)? Death, birth, a long night. Everything. Final.
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[quote]La segunda decepción de la mañana vino con una coproducción entre Bélgica, Holanda y Francia, el primer trabajo del belga Olivier Smolders. "Nuit Noire" es uno de esos títulos cuyas líneas argumentales del dossier de prensa atraen al espectador a enfrentarse a algo inexplorado. Oscar es un entomólogo que al llegar a su casa se encuentra con una mujer africana enferma en su cama, todo esto en el contexto de un mundo donde el sol sólo sale quince minutos al día. Película de tintes pesadillescos, con aspiraciones de relato kafkiano (sin conseguirlo obviamente), pero que se pierde en una narración farragosa, que comienza atrayendo y termina produciendo impaciencia. Es encomiable la labor del director en la construcción de una atmósfera irrespirable pero no es suficiente colocar a un tipo introvertido metido en situaciones inexplicables para que una película funcione. Hacia la mitad del metraje, el relato parece dar vueltas sobre sí mismo y no llega a ningún lado, moviéndose entre lo original y lo trillado (ese vídeo que nunca llega a su conclusión hasta que el realizador decide mostrarlo a modo de sorpresa final). En el dossier se le compara con "Cabeza borradora" de David Lynch, así que los fans de este director estarán gustosos de interpretarlo de cualquier manera posible.[/quote]
Yes, the big black bars are really there but the rip is otherwise of good quality.
I've yet to see it and I have the feeling it will be a disappointment. But hell it looks so fine
Note Well: the IMDb entry for this one is completely wrong
Nuit Noire (Olivier Smolders 2005).avi 
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Oscar, a conservator at the Natural Sciences Museum, passes the days exercising his passion for studying insects; if only there were still days. As long as people can remember, the sun only releases a few pathetic rays for fifteen seconds before noon. The rest of the time, the world is plunged into a night without end, a permanent eclipse. Coming home after work, Oscar finds an African woman in his bed. Suffering from a mysterious and incurable disease, she seems to have come to his place to die. Trapped between desire and repulsion, Oscar gradually abandons his life to terrifying phantoms.
from BIFF
[/quote]
Interview with Smolders
Don`t know much about this, downloaded it from the pirate bay a while ago, the original uploader commented on the not so good quality. But the movie is fantastic. Final. Insects, strange fantasies / dreams /psychoanalytic sessions (with some guy staring into our heros ear with some strange device..)? Death, birth, a long night. Everything. Final.
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[quote]La segunda decepción de la mañana vino con una coproducción entre Bélgica, Holanda y Francia, el primer trabajo del belga Olivier Smolders. "Nuit Noire" es uno de esos títulos cuyas líneas argumentales del dossier de prensa atraen al espectador a enfrentarse a algo inexplorado. Oscar es un entomólogo que al llegar a su casa se encuentra con una mujer africana enferma en su cama, todo esto en el contexto de un mundo donde el sol sólo sale quince minutos al día. Película de tintes pesadillescos, con aspiraciones de relato kafkiano (sin conseguirlo obviamente), pero que se pierde en una narración farragosa, que comienza atrayendo y termina produciendo impaciencia. Es encomiable la labor del director en la construcción de una atmósfera irrespirable pero no es suficiente colocar a un tipo introvertido metido en situaciones inexplicables para que una película funcione. Hacia la mitad del metraje, el relato parece dar vueltas sobre sí mismo y no llega a ningún lado, moviéndose entre lo original y lo trillado (ese vídeo que nunca llega a su conclusión hasta que el realizador decide mostrarlo a modo de sorpresa final). En el dossier se le compara con "Cabeza borradora" de David Lynch, así que los fans de este director estarán gustosos de interpretarlo de cualquier manera posible.[/quote]
Yes, the big black bars are really there but the rip is otherwise of good quality.
I've yet to see it and I have the feeling it will be a disappointment. But hell it looks so fine
Note Well: the IMDb entry for this one is completely wrong
Nuit Noire (Olivier Smolders 2005).avi 
I've got it so I can assure it's a very good film. 
, thanks trep. 
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