Stories of the Night: an applied and unsurprising thriller (review)

Léa Mysius misses out on her adaptation of Laurent Mauvignier’s novel. Hafsia Herzi, Benoît Magimel and Bastien Bouillon pick up what can be picked up.

Until then, Léa Mysius had made the sensation his territory. Ava and her blinding summer, The Five Devils and her jars of smells: two films that grabbed the genre to dissolve it into something murkier and stranger. Stories of the Night (adapted from a dense novel by Laurent Mauvignier) makes the opposite journey. In a remote hamlet, a family is preparing a birthday party when three men led by Benoit Magimel invite themselves in and dig up what should have remained buried. A home invasion, therefore.