The Night of the Clocks

7/11/2026

I'd been avoiding this, Jean Rollin's "final" film, for years. Final is in quotes because he actually did 1 more after this, but La nuit des horloges was written and delivered to be his last word. I had avoided it because it had gotten lukewarm reviews on that other site where people suck at reviewing films, and I didn't want my sky-high esteem of the master to be tarnished by a lukewarm finale. BOY. WAS. I. WRONG. To any true Rollin fan, to any fan of cinéma fantastique, or to any fan of deep, poetic thoughts on the nature of art, if not the nature of our own existence, this is the word. The story is about a young woman "Isabelle" who is haunted by the 1 memory she has of her dead cousin, a filmmaker named "Jean Michel". As she sleepwalks through a dreamscape of all the familiar loc