Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes
63rd New York Film Festival
September 26 - October 13, 2025
Shimmering with beauty and freighted with mystery, Gabriel Azorín’s feature debut—set in the vicinity of an ancient Roman bath in the Spanish countryside—is a cosmic hangout film that announces its director as a major new voice.
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Gabriel Azorín announces himself as a major new voice in his debut feature, a cosmic hangout film of sorts with a formal control that suggests a director decades his senior. In the vicinity of an ancient Roman thermal bath in the Spanish countryside, several young men boast of victories, confess fears, and look up at the darkening sky; as night falls, another group materializes, their conversations echoing what came before and gradually confounding our very sense of time. A film of lingering mystery and beauty, distinguished by remarkable night photography, a breathtaking drone shot, and an impressive command of blocking, space, and light, Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes is narrative cinema as travelogue and time machine.
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