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With Toute une nuit, Chantal Akerman, the mistress of minimalism, makes her own midsummer's night sex comedy, with plenty of stories and a cast of (almost) thousands. The film can also be seen as a postmodern version of a city symphony. Toute une nuit includes dozens of little mini-dramas that play out during a long, hot summer's night in Brussels. Akerman's camera follows the characters into bars, apartments, restaurants and city streets, and observes them with a playful sense of humour. The subject is love - men, women, children, who, seized by desire and capable of anything, get carried away by their frantic feeling, sometimes to the point of foolishness.

The viewer is allowed to fill-in the fictional spaces between the scenes.

There are many actors in this film, but no characters, and scarcely 100 words are spoken. Cahiers du Cinema called it "a sentimental comedy conceived as a choreographed dance".

This film can be seen on April 6th in Cinema Zuid.