Following Ramón and Céline, survivors of the Bataclan theatre massacre, the plot goes back and forth between the night of the attack at the Bataclan and the trauma experienced in the year thereafter.
Based on the book Paz, amor y death metal by Ramón González,[2] the screenplay was written by Fran Araújo, Isa Campo and Isaki Lacuesta.[3]
Ramón Campos, Teresa Fernández-Valdés, Jérôme Vidal, Isaki Lacuesta, and Isa Campo took over production duties.[4]
The score was composed by Refree.[2] The film is a Mr Fields and Friends, Bambú Producciones, La Termita Films and Noodles Production production, with the participation of TVE, Movistar+, TVC, and support from ICAA, ICEC [ca] and Eurimages.[5] Filming began on 8 February 2021 in Barcelona.[5] Shooting later moved to Paris.[2]
Release
The film premiered on 14 February 2022, screened at Berlinale Palast as part of the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival's main competition.[1][6]BTeam Pictures distributed the film in Spain,[5] where it was released on 21 October 2022.[7][8] The French theatrical release was set to 3 May 2023.[9]
Reception
One Year, One Night received generally positive reviews from film critics. It holds a 77% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 13 reviews, with an average rating of 7.90/10.[10]
Jonathan Holland of Screendaily considered the film to be "an emotionally compelling psychological drama", bringing some of Lacuesta's hallmarks, including a quasi-documentary style and a deep compassion for the unfortunate.[11]
Anna Smith of Deadline deemed the film to remain "a powerful, bittersweet meditation on the impact of trauma and the desire not to be defined by it".[12]
Top ten lists
The film appeared on a number of critics' top ten lists of the best Spanish films of 2022:
