The week continues for the Champs-Elysées Film Festival. Sunday, June 14, from 6pm, it is a French feature film that was proposed to us. La Nuit Venu, director Frédéric Farrucci's first feature film. Shot with a small budget, the cast is no less surprising: the singer Camélia Jordana is one of the headliners. Back on this film shot in the heart of Paris. Alongside Camélia Jordana, director Frédéric Farrucci made it a point of honor to give the roles of Chinese characters to actors native to China. This earned us dialogues juggling between French and Chinese, subtitled of course. Naomi is French and stripper, Jin is a Chinese undocumented VTC driver. In the pay of the Chinese mafia who threaten his family back in China, Jin works for them in order to pay his debt. Passionate about electro music and former DJ, he aspires to live from his music. Naomi dreams of a better life, far from Paris and her nightlife.
A nocturnal story
La Nuit Venu, shot in the heart of Paris and especially in the middle of the night, gives a magical and mysterious side to the French capital. The director tells us himself, addressing the meeting between Naomi and Jin:
"Then the arrival of Naomi in her car disrupts the hero's traffic, leading him to go around the ring road for example, a place where I perceive a form of beauty at night, yet absolutely ugly by day. Aesthetically, I wanted a dense black night and neon holes."
For the aesthetics of the film, it's successful. A dark night, mysterious characters adding a dark side to the story, a music club filled with neon… Everything is there. 
A love story certainly, but The Night Coming is above all a drama. And here, the drama surprises. We feel it coming, it is somewhat predictable yes, but it still surprises. The characters are endearing, we want to see them succeed, to see them get by. Frédéric Farrucci opens a door to dark Paris, Paris by night. He guides us through the eyes of a Chinese immigrant, who wants to do things right but who wants above all to protect his family back in Beijing. The French director also shows us the underside of a Parisian life banal during the day, but who dances at night to support herself. Living in Paris sells dreams for some but is a prison for others, where the only escape is to go far away leaving everything behind.
Some caveats
However, we can note some flats, which once corrected, could have given more depth to this night feature film. If we have a glimpse of Jin's private life, the same is not true for Naomi's. We know very little about him, which leaves doubt around his character, and leaves us with a head full of questions. We get attached to his character, but not enough. Not enough to feel his sadness and his urgent need to leave Paris. On Jin's side, her personal life is a superficial part of the story, and it shouldn't. We would like to dig deeper into his connection with the Chinese mafia, his arrival in France and his mysterious unpaid debt. Just like for the character of Naomi, we attach ourselves, but insufficiently. Knowing more about his experience and feelings would have allowed us as a spectator to understand his feelings by putting ourselves a little more in his place. 
On the side of the drama, some adjustments are to be made. Throughout the film, the rhythm is the same, composed, calm, to the rhythm of a ride in VTC, we do not feel the bumps or the sharp turns. On the other hand, the end is brutal. It comes too quickly and leaves us no time to rejoice. The conclusion gives the impression of having missed several cut scenes, and that's a shame. The drama arrives like a hair on the soup and leaves as it is, arms swinging and on our end. Maybe a few more scenes wouldn't have been too much. La Nuit Venue is available on the Champs-Elysées Film Festival website. Free and available to all, it is waiting for you!
Trailer The Night Comes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkPEnyTx3sk
