‘It Would Be Night in Caracas’ Review: A Gripping Thriller Sees Venezuela’s Violent Recent Past Echo Into Our Violent Present

The line between historical recreation and genre reimagining has seldom been as effectively blurred as in Mariana Rondón and Marité Ugás’ “It Would Be Night in Caracas.” A pacy thriller, based on Karina Sainz Borgo’s novel, the film mines pulpy pleasures from an apocalyptic vision of Venezuela’s 2017 riots. Those unfamiliar with the nation’s recent […]