The Sunlit Night

2019
1h 46m

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

2.6K

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Set between New York City and the far north of Norway, 'The Sunlit Night' follows American painter Frances and émigré Yasha as an unlikely pair who find each other in the Arctic circle. Frances has arrived to jumpstart her career while Yasha has come to bury his father in the land of the Vikings. Together under a sun that never quite sets, they bury the past and discover the future, and family, they didn't know they had.

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An aspiring painter meets eccentric locals and a fellow New Yorker while working on a barn in Norway.An aspiring painter meets eccentric locals and a fellow New Yorker while working on a barn in Norway.An aspiring painter meets eccentric locals and a fellow New Yorker while working on a barn in Norway.

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IMDb RATING

6.1/10

2.6K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination

Trivia
Notable works of art in display order: The Little Owl or Tawny Owl (circa 1506-1508) by Albrecht Dürer; Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow (1930) by Piet Mondrian; unknown seascape; unknown abstract waves crashing; unknown abstract modern gold on black; Frescoe of Musical Angel with Violin (circa 1472) by Melozzo da Forlì; The Louvre Virgin of the Rocks (circa 1483-1486) by Leonardo da Vinci; The Apotheosis of Hercules (1733-1736) by François Lemoyne; irrational cube (1958) by M.C. Escher; unknown pattern; Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin (April 1889) by Vincent van Gogh; Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin (August, 1888) by Vincent van Gogh; unknown madonna and child; Portrait of one of Cornelis de Vos' children (probably), seated in a baby chair (1762) Manuel Salvador Carmona, Former Attribution: Peter Paul Rubens; Boy with a Basket of Fruit (circa 1593) by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio; unknown painting of man and woman with back to artist; unknown sketch of women and man; Couple Walking Between Rows Of Trees (1890) by Vincent van Gogh; unknown yellow monochromatic mosaic, 1 of 2; unknown yellow monochromatic mosaic, 2 of 2; unknown sun over lavender; The Sower (1888) by Vincent van Gogh; Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun (1889) by Vincent van Gogh.

Quotes
[Haldor and Fridge Girl watch Frances walking away]
Haldor: Sometimes I feel like I should just go home. Because I feel so much like a troll.
Fridge Girl: I like trolls. They're so strong and they're never afraid, and they work in dark, cold places. Like me.

Soundtracks
Prelude No. 1 in C Major
(Ave Maria)
Written by Johann Sebastian Bach
Arranged by George Wilson
Courtesy of Warner/Chappell Production Music

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Featured review

5/10

So many great elements, but missed the landing

This movie was beautiful, and Slate certainly delivered a great performance of a messy, figuring-out-life artist who makes a bold move. But the relationship they introduced, which could have been left as a wonderful stranger dynamic, totally took away from story. It felt abrupt and unnecessary, and it diminished the very real characters they had established fairly well in the first half of the film.