More amorous than “High Life,” more ambitious than “Friday Night,” and arguably more accessible to mainstream American audiences than anything else she’s ever made (if only just), “Stars at Noon” is the closest that Denis’ spin on “Groundhog Day” has come to resembling the real thing. Nothing changes, and nothing stays the same. In this case, that dislocated feeling stems from the decision to update Denis Johnson’s 1986 novel of the same name from the Nicaraguan Revolution to now from the start of Daniel Ortega’s first term in office to the cusp of his fourth from Contras to COVID.
