Nuit blanche

...keeps up a relentless pace once it arrives at its main location.

Frédéric Jardin directs foot-down from the first, fierce shot, filling the spaces of his streamlined plot with a torrent of breathless set-pieces.

A sleepless night often begets much pacing of the floor, an exercise of trapped-space repetitiveness this French thriller cannily exploits for gasping tension.