I Can't Sleep (1993)

Synopsis: A group of unrelated characters converges in the Paris of the mid-1980s. Beautiful Daiga arrives at the end of her journey by car from Lithuania just as the city is in the grips of a frightening... A group of unrelated characters converges in the Paris of the mid-1980s. Beautiful Daiga arrives at the end of her journey by car from Lithuania just as the city is in the grips of a frightening string of murders, casually perpetrated by Camille--a black gay drifter--and his white lover. Theo is a struggling immigrant father of a small child, fixated on returning to Martinique, perpetually struggling with his French wife, Mona. As these disparate yet surprisingly similar stories begin to mesh, Denis's unflinching eye, color-saturated urban cinematography, and glacial pacing create a sort of inverted thriller in which the real mysteries are the struggling inner lives of the protagonists, not the crimes being committed in the foreground. The wandering interactions of the characters, the indifferent violence of the murders, and the tensions echoing below the surface of every interaction and gesture combine to create an abstract yet relentless image of urban self-absorption and identities in flux. [More]

Starring: Richard Courcet, Vincent Dupont, Alex Descas, Katerina Golubeva

Starring: Richard Courcet, Vincent Dupont, Alex Descas, Katerina Golubeva, Beatrice Dalle, Laurent Grevill

Director: Claire Denis

Director: Claire Denis
Screenwriter: Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau

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