The disjointed story is no more comprehensible than The Big Sleep. Though Alter is no Howard Hawks and Pardoe and Sanchez are no Bogie and Bacall, this movie looks great. You won't nap through The Perfect Sleep.
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03/27/09
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The Perfect Sleep (2009)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:4
Rotten:7
Average Rating:4.4/10
Theatrical Release:Mar 13, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: Think of the hard-boiled world of film noir: the world of Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade, a world of femme fatales, a world of shadows. Now imagine this world populated with characters from tragic... [More]
Starring: Roselyn Sanchez, Anton Pardoe, Patrick Bauchau, Peter J. Lucas
Director: Jeremy Alter
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Top CriticAlter’s film is a rare pleasure.
03/25/09
The well-chosen supporting cast also deliver with especially sharp turns from Sanchez, Bauchau and Amendola who act this script as if it were Shakespeare.
03/11/09
An undeniably odd mixture of 80% noir, 15% action, and 5% random homage. I dug it.
03/13/09
Unfortunately, Alter's often inventive work is kneecapped by a deliriously nonsensical script, which misses the mark as both over-the-top parody and straight-faced homage, and could have been intended as either.
03/13/09
Well-directed with exquisite visuals, but suffers from an often dull, convoluted and confusing plot as well as too much style over substance.
03/29/09
Style significantly trumps substance in The Perfect Sleep, a good-looking but convoluted homage to film noir, Russian literature and Shakespearean tragedy, among a few too many other things.
03/13/09
Easy on the eyes but brutal on the ears, The Perfect Sleep fuses Shakespearean tragedy and noir iconography into a strange, lovely, leaden ball of confusion.
03/27/09
Top CriticAn ungainly fusion of dutiful homage and snarky send-up.
03/12/09
Nothing makes much sense in this ridiculously high minded narrative, but the emptiness is brimming with intensity and attitude, along with some inspired night vision footage and dialogue delivered as over the top self-serious soundbites.
03/27/09
There are shadows on top of shadows. It's the film noir universe, all right. What does the title refer to? Perhaps to what you will enjoy during the film.
05/07/09
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