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I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
Strand Releasing

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 78 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
5.6 out of 10
based on 6 reviews
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MPAA 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)


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) 

Original title "Hei Yan Quan"; Nominated, Golden Lion, 2006 Venice Film Festival

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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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