The Passengers of the Night

The Passengers of the Night (Les Passagers de la nuit, 2022) is a French drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Mikhaël Hers and starring Charlotte Gainsbourg. Paris, May 1981 — the night François Mitterrand won the election. For Élisabeth, the celebrations outside are background noise: her marriage has just ended, she has two teenagers to raise, and no job.

She finds work answering calls at a late-night radio program for the lost and sleepless, and there she meets Talulah — a young woman adrift, played by Noée Abita. Élisabeth brings her home. Hers films this quiet story with care for small textures: the sound of a radio voice in the dark, a teenager's restless silence, the particular hope of a country at the start of a new chapter. A film that earns its emotion without demanding it. Stream The Passengers of the Night (2022) on iFILM.