The house of the sleeping beauties

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Movie
Original title The house of the sleeping beauties
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2006
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Vadim Glowna
script Vadim Glowna
production Raymond Tarabay ,
Vadim Glowna,
Marco Herten ,
Bernd Schaarmann
music Nikolaus Glowna ,
Siggi Mueller
camera Ciro Cappellari
cut Charles Lézin
occupation

The House of Sleeping Beauties is a German film drama from 2006. The main role is played by Vadim Glowna , who also directed it .

The film is an adaptation of the novel The Sleeping Beauties by the Japanese Nobel Prize winner for literature Yasunari Kawabata .

action

Edmond's wife and daughter are killed in a serious car accident. Edmond believes it was suicide and blames himself for the death of his family. To get Edmond out of his depression , his friend Kogi recommends the house of the "sleeping beauties". Run by the "Madame" Establishment is an illegal private club, prevailing in the strict rules: no rape, no contact with women and watch any questions.

Edmond visits the club more and more often and spends night after night next to an anesthetized woman. He touches her, caresses her and licks her, which excites him, but never really satisfies. He talks to the sleeping women about death and women, especially about his mother. Edmond's addiction to the place grows, as does his need to break the rules and his longing for death.

Meanwhile, mysterious deaths of women are piling up in the house of the sleeping beauties, whose corpses are dumped in the river. Nevertheless, "Madame" Edmond always puts new women in bed.

Reviews

“The new directorial work by Vadim Glowna, also known as an actor, is an adaptation of the Japanese novel 'The Sleeping Beauties' by Yasunari Kawabata. He succeeds in preserving its poetic, melancholy style. An old man's fantasy, dark, peculiar, beguilingly strange - composed with careful images, fed from a dark, muted color palette. "

- Focus: film

“The plot was moved from a timeless Japan to today's Berlin, although the film never makes it very clear what the appeal of doing this might have been. Furthermore, Glowna steered the matriarchal subtext of the original in a different direction with thriller elements. […] From the very first moment, from the first note of the worn, jazzy film music, a heavy curtain of sadness, loneliness and permanent reflection on the sometimes dreamlike images descends. [...] The scenario that the film creates is morbid, not frivolous. "

- film service

Others

The film was registered for the selection of the German Oscar nominee in 2008 , but had to admit defeat to Fatih Akıns On the Other Side .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Focus: Film - The House of the Sleeping Beauty
  2. ^ Ulrich Kriest, film service - The house of the sleeping beauties
  3. ^ Oscar competition "Best Non-English Language Feature Film". In: Filmportal.de. Retrieved August 19, 2019 .

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