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I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

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I Don't Want to Sleep Alone reviews
78
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Based on 6 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy  |  Drama  |  Foreign

Written by: Tsai Ming-liang

Directed by: Tsai Ming-liang

Release Date:
Theatrical: May 9, 2007

Running Time: 115 minutes, Color

Origin: Taiwan / France / Austria

Language(s): Taiwanese / Malay / Mandarin / Bengali (with English subtitles)

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Norman Atun, Shiang-chyi Chen, Pearlly Chua, and Kang-sheng Lee

Homeless on the streets of Kuala Lumpur, Hsiao Kang is robbed, beaten and left for dead; he is found and nursed by Rawang, an immigrant worker, who lives in the shell of a modernist building abandoned during construction. (Strand Releasing)

What The Critics Said

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88

TV Guide Ken Fox

Tsai finds great beauty in streets of Kuala Lumpur particularly at night, making this gorgeous film one that should be seen on a large screen in the total darkness of a theater.

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88

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

The movie is a block of paper that, when Tsai's finished with it, becomes a chain of snowflakes. Loneliness doesn't often get such a gorgeously ornate tribute.

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80

Variety Jay Weissberg

With a pronounced Baroque palette and his usual astonishing use of light, picture looks ravishing -- individual scenes make a deeper impact than the characters themselves.

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80

The New York Times A.O. Scott

Mr. Tsai's films are held together internally, and connected one to another, by an elusive, insistent logic that is easier to recognize than to describe. But once you do start to recognize it, each new movie offers passage to an exotic place that feels, uncannily, like home.

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78

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

Tsai’s drama is something like a mixture of Robert Bresson and R.W. Fassbinder, as God’s bedraggled souls struggle with the desires of the damned, and nobody wants to go into that good night alone.

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67

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

The film ends so beautifully that it's easy to forgive the dead passages that preceded it and hope it carries over into his next movie.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 6.0 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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