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  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 39 m
House of the Sleeping Beauties

Summary Edmond, a man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, is told about a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed alongside beautiful, sleeping young women, who stretch, roll over and dream, but never awaken. Bedazzled by their seductive yet innocent tenderness, but distressed about the reason for their de...

Directed By: Vadim Glowna

Written By: Yasunari Kawabata, Vadim Glowna

  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 39 m

House of the Sleeping Beauties

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary Edmond, a man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, is told about a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed alongside beautiful, sleeping young women, who stretch, roll over and dream, but never awaken. Bedazzled by their seductive yet innocent tenderness, but distressed about the reason for their de...

Directed By: Vadim Glowna

Written By: Yasunari Kawabata, Vadim Glowna

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
21
13% Positive
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13% Mixed
1 Review
75% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
21
13% Positive
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13% Mixed
1 Review
75% Negative
6 Reviews

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75
It would be easy to dismiss House of the Sleeping Beauties as a lewd male fantasy, but that would be ignoring the German film's deeper purpose as - in the words of the director, Vadim Glowna - a meditation on "transition, remembrance, mourning, guilt, loneliness, sex and death, eroticism and dying."
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
50
A self-indulgent and icky film, but reasonably well made and undeniably addictive.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
30
Ultimately, the film doesn't succeed in its thematic aspirations, proving yet again that great literature doesn't usually transfer successfully to the screen.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
25
With the mounting number of first-rate, even masterly foreign-language films locked out of movie theaters due to wary distributors, it's worth pondering why such laughable dreck as German actor-writer-director Vadim Glowna's House of the Sleeping Beauties actually made it through.
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10
Not even the august presence of Maximilian Schell can dispel the odor of fusty smut that clings to House of the Sleeping Beauties, a clammy meditation on sex, death and the endless fascination of unclothed innocence.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
0
Glowna presents this smoky German feature as an elegy for lost youth, but it's so tumescent with male self-pity that I couldn't wait for it to end.
By J.R. Jones FULL REVIEW
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One of the year's worst releases. A second viewing of "Synecdoche" would be less painful.
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Production Company Atossa Film Produktion GmbH, Impact Films
Release Date Nov 14, 2008
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline The Psychology of Eroticism on Vivid Display.
Website https://mt2.org/uyeler/house-of-the-sleeping-beauties.13543/
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Awards

Women Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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