‘Girl in the Night’ Trailer Introduces a Crime-Fighting Mystery Ahead of Fantastic Fest World Premiere
A lonely kleptomaniac, a mysterious young woman who claims to have superpowers and one stolen bicycle collide in Girl in the Night, the latest feature from Slovenian filmmaker Luka Marčetić.
Temporama has released the trailer for the offbeat genre film ahead of its world premiere in the main competition at Fantastic Fest. Girl in the Night will screen September 20 at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, Texas.
Written and directed by Marčetić, whose previous work includes the series Day of Love and Paired Up and the comedies At Hostar and At Hostar 2‰, the film combines deadpan comedy, romance and an unconventional spin on superhero storytelling.
Urban Kuntarič stars as Rok, a lonely young man stuck working night shifts at a gas station. With little happening in his life, Rok passes the time by stealing chocolate bars from his workplace.
His routine changes when a mysterious young woman, played by Lara Wolf, appears one night with severe bruises covering her face. She claims to possess superpowers and spends her nights fighting crime, immediately giving Rok something considerably stranger to occupy his attention.
There’s just one problem. He needs to figure out how to see her again.
His solution isn’t exactly romantic.
Rok decides to steal her bicycle, a decision that sends his already aimless existence in an unexpected direction and brings the two misfits together under increasingly unusual circumstances.
The newly released trailer establishes the film’s deliberately understated personality, with Girl in the Night presenting its strange central relationship without abandoning the mundane world surrounding its characters. The result looks less interested in traditional superhero spectacle than in what happens when two isolated people searching for purpose unexpectedly collide.
The filmmakers describe the film as combining elements of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Napoleon Dynamite and Juno, an unusual mixture that reflects its combination of nighttime genre imagery, awkward characters and deadpan humor.
For Marčetić, those outsiders are central to the story.
“I am deeply interested in people who are mostly quiet, shy, and to a point enjoy solitary existence,” the filmmaker said in his director’s statement. “These people often go unnoticed in everyday life, yet they possess a unique strength in their quietness.”
Marčetić said he wanted to place those characters in the roles typically reserved for more conventional heroes and antiheroes, describing Girl in the Night as a story about boredom and the search for friendship under unusual circumstances.
Kuntarič’s previous credits include Let Him Be a Basketball Player, Consequences and In the Name of the People. Wolf is a co-author of Scream: The First Voice, with upcoming film credits including Tartufferies and Seaview.
The film is produced by Jerca Jerič and Andraž Jerič for Temporama. Lev Predan Kowarski serves as director of photography following work including Man with the Shadow, Cent’anni and Little Trouble Girls, the latter of which earned him a cinematography award at the Tribeca Film Festival. Primož Hladnik and Boris Benko of the duo Silence composed the music.
With its Fantastic Fest world premiere approaching, Girl in the Night looks to put an unconventional spin on the idea of the masked nighttime crime fighter by focusing instead on two young outsiders, an uneventful gas station shift and the questionable decision to steal someone’s bike just to see them again.
Check out the trailer for Girl in the Night ahead of its world premiere September 20 at Fantastic Fest in Austin.
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