Night Doctor, The

[Available Feb. 8 via streaming on MUBI.] Terrific acting dominates Eli Wajemanz's captivating, gripping, realistic, well-written, gritty, 82-minute, 2020 film noir in which a compassionate, workaholic French doctor (Vincent Macaigne), who treats at-home patients and tries to get drug addicts (Lou Lampros, et al.) off drugs during all hours of the night in Paris, decides he must change the course of his chaotic, messed-up, stress-filled life by no longer helping his duplicitous pharmacist cousin (Pio Marmaï) by providing illegal Subutex prescriptions and breaking off his affair with his pharmacy technician mistress (Sara Giraudeau) to make amends to his rightfully angry, fed-up wife (Sarah Le Picard) and two young daughters.
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