Stars at Noon (2022 film)
2022 film directed by Claire Denis
Stars at Noon is a 2022 English-language French romantic thriller film directed by Claire Denis, based on the 1986 novel The Stars at Noon by Denis Johnson, starring Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn, Benny Safdie, Danny Ramirez, and John C. Reilly.
The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered to mixed reviews and won the Grand Prix. Critics praised Qualley's performance but criticized the film's pacing and the chemistry between Qualley and Alwyn. It was released in the United States by A24 on 14 October 2022. It was released in France by Ad Vitam Distribution on 14 June 2023.
Plot
Trish is a young American journalist stranded in Nicaragua during the COVID-19 pandemic and amid a period of severe governmental instability. She is a travel writer whose coverage of brutal extrajudicial killings has alienated both her superiors and the ruling party; her passport has been confiscated and she is living in a flophouse paid for by a sympathetic cabinet minister. Trish assumes that she will be executed for her anti-government activities when the minister can no longer protect her. She has sex with government officials for money and basic necessities (largely unavailable due to the political crisis) while searching desperately for a way out of the country.
One day, Trish solicits a British man named Daniel for sex in a hotel reserved for wealthy foreigners.
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