Exclusive: Céline Rouzet’s Clips for En attendant la nuit (For Night Will Come)- 2023 Venice Film Festival

Among the four (at last count) vampire-related titles to surface on the Lido this year we find the Orizzonti selected En attendant la nuit (For Night Will Come) — the sophomore feature by Céline Rouzet stars Mathias Legoût-Hammond, Elodie Bouchez (from Wild Reeds, The Dreamlife of Angels and American indie The Imperialists Are Still Alive! fame), Jean-Charles Clichet, Céleste Brunnquell and Laly Mercier. We’ve got a quartet of clips to debut here and it gives us a sense of one family’s balancing act to contain the secret from infancy but also the pains of growing up with the need to quench one’s thirst. Like Julia Ducournau’s Raw, genre cinema allowed for Rouzet to visit some difficult family themes via genre film. En attendant la nuit will have its world premiere on Wednesday, September 6th. Here are four exclusive clips:

The day they move into a new neighborhood, the Feral family plan to look as normal and friendly as possible. But their son, Philemon, is not an ordinary teenager. When he gets closer to his new neighbour, Camila, his thirst for blood grows and his difference becomes impossible to hide…