‘Eat the Night’ May Have Its Naysayers, but the Journey Is a Likeable One
Those who pine for the insouciant grit of American films from the 1970s will find it in Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel’s second film — and, irony of ironies, it comes courtesy of the French.

Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel have released their second picture, “Eat the Night,” and so far the reviews are not all good. Their debut feature, “Jessica Forever” (2018), passed under my radar, but a cursory scan finds the critical responses to it are similarly mixed. Given how much I was initially put off by “Eat the Night” and how thoroughly I became engrossed in it, I can’t help but place “Jessica Forever” a few places up on my watchlist.
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