Product Details

• Actors: Pascale Bussieres, Rachael Crawford, Henry Czerny, David Fox
• Directors: Patricia Rozema
• Format: Color, Widescreen
• Subtitles: French, English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002CTW3C
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #172,541 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Great lesbian recognition and romance film! A great romantic movie. This is not a slopped-together film for the sake of titillating the hetero male crowd with lesbian sex, nor a cheap, half-baked B-movie for the lesbian audience (I hate it when we settle for less). This is a real film by folks who know what it takes to make a movie (a romance, no less!), deliver a story, and develop its characters. Not since John Sayles' Lianna have I seen a movie of this caliber about a woman coming to terms with her sexuality. It has characters you care about, depth, and a subtle sense of humor. You'll find this movie enjoyable and refreshing, especially if you're tired of the straight movie industry's continued obsession with making gays and lesbians into murderers, psychos, weirdos and laughing stocks, and the gay subculture's portrayal of everyone as tattooed, leathered, and extreme.

Customer Reviews

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43 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply the best lesbian movie EVER made!, February 18, 2005

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K. E. Fox "Voracious reader and movie fanatic" (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: When Night Is Falling (DVD)

From the first moment I saw previews of this movie while visiting Canada, I was enthralled by this film.

The gorgeous women, cinematography, quirky plot, and awesome love scenes swept me away and haven't seen anything that comes close to this GREAT film.

This film is about a college professor named Camille, who teaches mythology at a small religious college in Quebec. She's dating an up and coming professor who is on the fast track to become dean of the school. However, the female professor's life is forever changed when she ends up being comforted at a laundromat by a beautiful woman after her dog is killed. Very soon we see that the attraction between these two women cannot be denied and Camille has to decide whether to stay in her safe life with her boyfriend, or let passion (and repressed desire) take her wherever the tender and beautiful circus performer may lead her.

This is an absolute perfect movie.

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A GREAT Fine Art Film for the senses., June 3, 2005

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bunnyrabbit4 (New Orleans, LA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: When Night Is Falling (DVD)

Most Lesbian films are just plain bad. With the rare exception of a film like Desert Hearts, they are mindless romps by undeveloped characters. They always end in the bedroom, usually to a lush musical score, because the plot literally can't go anywhere else. This film is not only a good lesbian film but a beautiful, artistically rendered chronical of a quirky relationship between two very eccentric people. The cinematography alone makes it so visually compelling. It has a fine rhythmic pacing and a color saturation reminiscent of David Lynch. It is so good that you could enjoy it for that alone. One scene that intercuts a car headlight dancing across a wall, a circus act that uses bouncing lights behind a screen and a man and woman making love turns editing into an artform. The really sad thing about this film is that it took so long to come out on DVD that it lost its original audience. The release went largely unnoticed and the DVD promptly dissappeared from the marketplace. How sad when so many mindless films are still readily available. Hopefully someone will revive this beauty at a gay film fest and create a market for it again. I hope so.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very sweet and funny film, November 16, 2004

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Erica Anderson (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: When Night Is Falling (DVD)

I am a big movie buff. I try to expand my horizons by watching films that I wouldn't have thought to watch, one of those films is "When Night is Falling". I thought the general premise of the film where two women who were complete opposites and immediately become attracted to each other in this film was a lot more convincing than in most films that involved heterosexual couples. Pascale Bussieres plays Camille who works at a extremely conservative Christian college. She meets Petra (played by the gorgeous Rachel Crawford) in the laundrymat. Petra briefly comforts Camille because earlier that day, Camille's dog got loose and was hit by a car. Smitten, Petra switches her clothes with Camille's just so she can see Camille again. Her chance encounters with the unconventional circus performer leads Camille down a path of self-discovery and she slowly learns to really enjoy life. She quickly becomes torn between her rigid, conservative life with her fiance, a fellow theologian professor at the school she works at and a more free-spirit life that Petra leads. Eventually Camille makes her choice. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. The music really captured the ambience of the film. I particularly enjoyed the scenes involving Petra and her circus troupe performing. The love scenes weren't gratuitous or weren't constructed for heterosexual male viewing like you would see in some mainstream film like "Showgirls" or even "Bound". The film was well written and the acting was excellent as well.