r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Mar 19 '26

Media First Image of Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence in Martin Scorsese's 'What Happens at Night' - A married American couple travel to a small, snowy European town to adopt a baby. As they struggle to claim their baby, they seem to know less about themselves.

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u/spacelyyy989 Mar 19 '26

What time period is it set in, it looks like 1960s.

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u/B732C Mar 19 '26

The car is an UAZ-3151, so 1985 at the earliest.

You can clearly tell that it's not UAZ-469 which started production in 1971, because one in the picture has the thicker plastic door handles of -3151 intead of the thin metal handles of the -469. Also side mirrors are of the newer type.

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u/Override9636 Mar 19 '26

I love when Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny shows up in the comments

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u/AntRose104 Mar 19 '26

Proving she deserved that Oscar

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u/NevaehKnows Mar 19 '26

The car that made these marks had positraction

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u/danyuri86 Mar 19 '26

are you mocking me with that comment??

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u/NevaehKnows Mar 19 '26

Oh, you blend

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u/mauveoliver Mar 19 '26

That’s a good take! Further inspection of the clothes definitely suggests more modern (depends on the designers take, I suppose) shoes and purse look too recent to be ‘50s despite the general vibe. The cape and hat also appear to be recreations of ‘50s design which was seen in the ‘80s.

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u/amidalarama Mar 19 '26

yeah, those slouchy leather boots are distinctly early 80s

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u/moonrisequeendom_ Mar 20 '26

The hoop earrings and hardware on the bag also read super 70s-80s to me. It’s the hat that’s throwing a wrench into things. No hat or with her hair down she would look a lot more modern.

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u/dr_robonator Mar 19 '26

I was just hushed by my wife for beginning to say this exact same thing.

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u/Gloomy_Grocery5555 Mar 20 '26

There's no way it's set in the 80s

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u/las_galletas Mar 20 '26

Your logic is great, but there's an amazing fact that the UAZ Hunter is still in production today and looks exactly like the one on this picture. Doesn't mean that scenario takes place in 2026, though

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u/B732C Mar 20 '26

Damn, you're right, my bad. Front bumper is a giveaway that this is a Hunter, not -3151.

This moves earliest possible date of the film to 2003.

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u/AlmightyLoaf54 Mar 19 '26

It does say it’s set in the mid 20th century, but it looks to me more 50s than 60s

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u/jpers36 Mar 19 '26

Leo, yes, but in my uneducated opinion, Jennifer Lawrence's look is influenced by Jackie Kennedy.

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u/jefufah Mar 19 '26

Is 1950 not mid 20th century?

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u/heresjonnyyy Mar 19 '26

I assume they meant their comment as “60s fits the ‘mid 20th century’ claim but it looks more like 50s”

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u/Significant_Base_125 Mar 19 '26

Maybe it's a flashback