Nocturne (1980) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1980 · 8 mins · Danish

Directed by

Lars von Trier

Starring

Yvette

It’s night, and after a vivid dream of an intruder smashing through a window, a light‑sensitive woman talks on the phone with a friend. She has a 6 a.m. flight from Copenhagen to Buenos Aires she’d rather skip, but her friend urges her to go. Later she stands in a car park clutching her suitcase as flocks of geese sweep across the sky, the scene charged with an uneasy, lingering tension.