That middle-of-nowhereness gives After Dark My Sweet an almost alien feel. Yet even though it traffics in so many Noir tropes - the shifty ex-boxer, the menacing but podunk crime boss - Foley never thought of the film as a Film Noir until others started describing it as one. He was simply making a film about desperate, amoral characters who don't realize how doomed they are - what he calls his "sweet spot." "I had no idea it was Noir until i read the reviews" he says. "But i'm happy to have gotten away with it."
Brian Rafferty
The Ringer.com
2021
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After Dark My Sweet
James Foley (1990)
The Ringer.com
2021
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After Dark My Sweet
James Foley (1990)
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