No Night is To Long (2006)
Starring: Lee Williams, Marc Warren, Mikela J. Mikael
Plot: A promising university student, Tim Cornish is drawn
to a man he sees on campus. Their chance encounters become a passionate, yet
volatile, relationship and soon Tim’s once-bright future is filled with betrayal,
heartbreak and murder.
My Review and Thoughts:
This is a surprisingly forgotten about film. I had never
even heard of it until I came across the DVD and decided to give it a
chance and was I forever shocked and utterly amazed at how extraordinary this
film is. It never occurred to me where it was going as I was watching and when
the final credits rolled I was dumbfounded at how great this dark mysterious
film was.
Superb acting, awesome direction and a phenomenal story. The
characters are flawlessly acted through many wonderful ways that grab the
viewer and basically puts them in the scenarios taking place. I can't believe
that I had never even heard of this movie or even knew it existed until by
fluke I came across it. I am so shocked that I have not heard this spoken about
or mentioned or even shared on review sites or spoken about on movie blogs.This is one of those diamonds hidden. This is one of those
treasures that can be found but so many are not even looking because they don't
know about it. I hope I can spread the word and make people seek this out.
This is actually a TV movie that the BBC brought out but it
plays like a regular mainstream feature film, that's how good it is. Tons of nudity, sex and mystery. It does not
remind you of a TV movie. This is based on No
Night Is Too Long (novel) by Ruth Rendell. A wonderful cast of characters and
emotions makeup this somewhat haunting tale of a young creative writing student
named Tim. Tim leads a lifestyle of one night stands with countless women until
he comes across a professor at the university Dr. Ivo Steadman who is a man. There he falls
for the Dr. He sees him everywhere. His dreams and his desire cloud up with the
image and lust for the Dr.
This is a fantastic crime, drama, thriller that weaves
itself into many genres of film. Tim has a secret that you find out right away
and then he begins his story telling you of the nature of his deed, his crime
his ultimate haunting nightmare.
Tim is played wonderful by Lee Williams and Ivo is played
flawless and mysterious by Marc Warren. Both actors chemistry is perfect as
they play off each other. The love affair and puppy dog affection and ultimate
lustful playground of each other's bodies become a main focus. Soon that
lustful desire inside Tim fades as the remark is made, I love you by Ivo. The
term is like a shield or a painful experience that changes everything.
A nice crime mystery and a darkened reality that plays like
an Alfred Hitchcock murder mystery. Tim receives odd strange and mysterious
letters about shipwrecks and those stranded on islands ending up murdering or
cannibalism. The letters are like haunting messages playing with Tim's psyche.
It's part love story or more lust story, but yet it's a twisted, dark and taunt thriller. This is actually directed by a phenomenal,
director and writer Tom Shankland. He directed two of my favorite films The
Killing Gene (2007) and The Children (2008) which he also wrote and now I have
to say this is another one that goes up there with his awesome talent in
directing and in creating a film that's memorable with awesome developed
characters and twisted scenarios taking place.
I think something else that stands out is the music score
throughout, mixing in that old classic Hitchcock style, reminiscence of the masterpiece Psycho.
Christopher Dedrick (1947–2010) did an amazing and fantastic job at composing
this soundtrack.
The reality of this film is it plays out just like a
Hitchcock film. Different settings and just when you think you know what's
going on the story changes. The plot changes and most of all the scenario does
a 360 creating itself in a whole other fashion. Nice classic tension. Nice
suspense buildup. Wonderful drama and perfect characters. A thriller and a twisted
plot that leaves a perfect lasting example of how to make a film and create a shining
perfection of a cinema piece of gold.