Sleep tight
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Sleep tight |
| Original title | Mientras duermes |
| Country of production | Spain |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jaume Balagueró |
| script | Alberto Marini |
| production |
Julio Fernández Carlos Fernández Alberto Marini |
| music | Lucas Vidal |
| camera | Pablo Rosso |
| cut | Guillermo de la Cal |
| occupation | |
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Sleep Tight (original title Mientras duermes , translated: "When you are asleep") is a Spanish psychological thriller with horror elements by Jaume Balagueró from 2011.
action
César is a concierge and caretaker in an apartment building in a major Spanish city. He sees no meaning in his life, even thinks of suicide. The therapeutic radio broadcast, which he listens to all the time, hardly helps him either. He tortures his sick mother, whom he visits every day, with cynical assignments of blame for his way of life.
Since he is never happy himself, he deliberately makes life difficult for the residents of the house in revenge for his fate. B. steals items from homes or gives the wrong food to pets he is supposed to watch out for. While the residents only know him vaguely and mostly trust him, César knows many intimate details from their life and uses his knowledge for his deeds. His preferred victim is the cheerful Clara: he repeatedly breaks into her apartment with his duplicate key, numbs her at night with chloroform and rapes her. He prepares her cosmetics with allergenic substances and releases cockroaches in her apartment. He also sends her lewd letters and short messages anonymously . When he is almost exposed by an interception system, he cleverly directs suspicion to the son of the house cleaning lady, who is arrested for it.
Individual actors cause difficulties for César. The 13-year-old neighbor Úrsula, who is secretly observing him and knows about many of his actions, demands hush money. The Argentine president of the community of owners, who is very meticulous and considers César to be unreliable because he is often late for work, finally quits him.
In the meantime, Clara learns that she is expecting a child and that she is already in the fourth week of pregnancy. Your friend Marcos cannot be the father because he was abroad for six weeks. Marcos finds evidence of César's nocturnal activity and confronts him with it. César then kills him and positions the body in Clara's bathtub to make it look like suicide. The police have suspicions of suspicion against César, but they cannot prove anything because he brutally intimidated Úrsula as the only possible witness.
At the end of the film, César and his diary send one last letter to Clara, in which he confesses to her all his crimes - including the fact that he is the father of her child, who has now been born.
background
Sleep Tight premiered at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas in 2011 . The film was shot in Barcelona , according to JP's box office, twelve million euros were available for it; the same source mentions about six million US dollars worldwide total revenue.
criticism
The lexicon of the international film judged that it was a "suggestive thriller, which conjures up the fear of not being able to feel safe in one's own four walls and cleverly manipulates the empathy of the audience."
Remake
In 2018, the South Korean remake Door Lock by director Lee Kwon with Gong Hyo-jin in the lead role was released.
Awards
- 2012: Film award from the Spanish actors' union Unión de Actores y Actrices
- 2012: Gaudí film award in six categories
- 2012: Jury Prize at the Fantasia Film Festival for the best screenplay
- 2012: Silver Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival
- 2013: 2nd place in the Fangoria Chainsaw Award for best foreign language film
In 2012 , Sleep tight was also nominated for the Goya , for the film prize of the Spanish scriptwriting association CEC and for the World Soundtrack Award .
Source:
Web links
- Sleep Tight in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sleep Tight in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1437358/locations
- ↑ http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=12582
- ↑ Sleep tight. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Pierce Conran: Review: DOORLOCK, Tense Korean SLEEP TIGHT Remake, Goes the Distance. In: Screen Anarchy. December 8, 2018, accessed February 27, 2019 .
- ↑ IMDb Awards