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House of the Sleeping Beauties
First Run Features
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Vadim Glowna,
Angela Winkler,
Maximilian Schell,
Birol Unel,
Mona Glass,
and
Marina Weis
Edmond, a man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, is told about a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed alongside beautiful, sleeping young women, who stretch, roll over and dream, but never awaken. Bedazzled by their seductive yet innocent tenderness, but distressed about the reason for their deep sleep, he delves into the mystery of the house of sleeping beauties. Based on the beautifully strange novella by Yasunari Kawabata, acclaimed writer-director Vadim Glowna has crafted a mysterious thriller about loneliness, sex, eroticism and mortality. (First Run Features)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
Suspense/Thriller
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Vadim Glowna
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Vadim Glowna
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: November 14, 2008
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
99 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Germany |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
German |
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75
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
It would be easy to dismiss House of the Sleeping Beauties as a lewd male fantasy, but that would be ignoring the German film's deeper purpose as - in the words of the director, Vadim Glowna - a meditation on "transition, remembrance, mourning, guilt, loneliness, sex and death, eroticism and dying."
50
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
A self-indulgent and icky film, but reasonably well made and undeniably addictive.
30
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Ultimately, the film doesn't succeed in its thematic aspirations, proving yet again that great literature doesn't usually transfer successfully to the screen.
25
Christian Science Monitor
Robert Koehler
With the mounting number of first-rate, even masterly foreign-language films locked out of movie theaters due to wary distributors, it's worth pondering why such laughable dreck as German actor-writer-director Vadim Glowna's House of the Sleeping Beauties actually made it through.
10
The New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Not even the august presence of Maximilian Schell can dispel the odor of fusty smut that clings to House of the Sleeping Beauties, a clammy meditation on sex, death and the endless fascination of unclothed innocence.
0
Village Voice
Vadim Rizov
One of the year's worst releases. A second viewing of "Synecdoche" would be less painful.
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