Dealing in a more personal, poetic fashion with the same Indian political trends...

| Oct 25, 2023

... A hybrid documentary that lies between political signaling and fortuitous subjectivity, that, even if not thematically, delivers a great display of artistic inventiveness in its form. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 12, 2023

Kapadia's work is formally strong with a captivatingly sensorial atmosphere, so it's easy to see why it has found such staunch defenders. It's not too difficult to fathom someone hating it too, though.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 20, 2023

A film that considers its condition, limits, and limitations as a privileged standpoint for reflection and thought. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 29, 2022

Synthetic joy, authentic pain...something so beautiful and bold about the stylized black and white film.

| Nov 10, 2022

One of those few films that still believe and make believe in the ability of cinema to rebel, to become the engine of struggle, without ceasing to be intimate and captivating. [Full reivew in Spanish]

| Oct 17, 2022

The story here is interesting, with Kapadia shuffling between ideas. But for me it was the achievement of image and sound that made it a must see.

| Sep 27, 2022

Fascinating and demanding work... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2022

A Night of Knowing Nothing is a beautifully quilted but nonetheless staid documentary... The intimacy of L’s letters do not fully cohere with the wider political exploration, but the human touch is what lingers in the mind once the credits roll.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 1, 2022

Overviews the passionate university militancy and in passing, criticizes the traditional social structure in [India]. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 20, 2022

There is a disconnect between the woozy mood and the sharp, still-raw events to which it refers, and this gives the film its peculiar power.

| Apr 4, 2022

An intoxicating love letter to the cinema of resistance.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 4, 2022

A Night of Knowing Nothing‘s mix of archival footage and a series fictional of letters constructs a dreamlike reality that elides distinctions between fact and fiction to reveal a deeper truth about the state of the world.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2022

A fascinating report on a country which is full of contradictions.

| Mar 30, 2022

Love for the moving image – and love for artistic creativity – marches hand in hand with the fight for political freedom.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 28, 2022

As finely made and balanced as Night is, it retains an ample sense of the subjective, improvisational, and personally expressive; no one could ever accuse it of cool or dispassionate calibration.

| Mar 17, 2022

It’s rather distracting and almost makes the occurrences seem fictitious. In this overmodulated way, the film also purports to be an homage to cinema itself...

| Feb 23, 2022

The movie expresses so much, so delicately, about precarious young hearts, the storm clouds of nationalist politics and, most of all, the possibility and necessity of artistic freedom.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 18, 2022

From Godard and May 68, to mythical Hindu God films, to Chris Marker, A Night of Knowing Nothing weaves an intoxicating visual, textural contemplation of our relationship with cinema as an unintentional but nevertheless undeniably nostalgic medium.

| Feb 13, 2022

Jonathan Rosenbaum convincingly argues that a film can't be both incoherent and political at its best, A Night of Knowing Nothing offers a challenge to this wisdom.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 9, 2022