Charlotte Gainsbourg

Gainsbourg stars in Berlinale film of nostalgia and the Paris night

• Paris in the small hours and even the party-goers are asleep. Mikhael Hers's "The Passengers of the Night", which premieres at the Berlin Film Festival on Sunday, is a tribute to the night-time radio of the early 1980s when, as one character puts it, the medium still had "the monopoly of the night". Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg as Elisabeth, a recently divorced mother, the film, one of 18 competing for the festival's top prize, plays wth the sounds and lights of the city at night, seen from the tower block in the outskirts where she lives.