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  • 2019
  • The Orchard
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2019
  • The Orchard
  • 1 h 44 m

Summary One year after the untimely death of her husband (Michiel Huisman), a young woman (Katherine Waterston) receives a phone call that pulls her back to Brussels and the life there that she's tried to forget. She is forced to finally confront her grief but is swept up in unraveling the mysteries surrounding her husband's last days alive.

Directed By: Meredith Danluck

Written By: Meredith Danluck

  • 2019
  • The Orchard
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2019
  • The Orchard
  • 1 h 44 m

State Like Sleep

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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Summary One year after the untimely death of her husband (Michiel Huisman), a young woman (Katherine Waterston) receives a phone call that pulls her back to Brussels and the life there that she's tried to forget. She is forced to finally confront her grief but is swept up in unraveling the mysteries surrounding her husband's last days alive.

Directed By: Meredith Danluck

Written By: Meredith Danluck

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
48
21% Positive
3 Reviews
71% Mixed
10 Reviews
7% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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21% Positive
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71% Mixed
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7% Negative
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75
Jan 4, 2019
Stories like this one remind us that we need to find a way to cope with the random and the unknowable.
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67
May 2, 2018
Overall, State Like Sleep is a satisfying movie about grief and an unsatisfying mystery.
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50
Jan 8, 2019
Maybe my assessment is colored by the dud ending, since the journey to its criminally unsatisfying final scenes is tantalizingly dreamlike and unnerving.
By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW
50
Jan 3, 2019
Danluck (“North of South, West of East”) gets us halfway there, with a solid cast and crew, an apt depiction of emotional exhaustion, and a heroine we want to root for in a strange setting we’re ready to embrace. But she floats too ineffectually between dream and nightmare, never settling on one or committing to the other.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 27, 2018
There is not enough in the performances or the script to set it apart from the constant flow of indie crime dramas.
By David D'Arcy FULL REVIEW
42
Apr 27, 2018
The whole thing aspires to art, but can really only be appreciated as trash.
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky FULL REVIEW
0
Jan 4, 2019
The first thriller of the new season is a bomb called State Like Sleep, and it’s about as thrilling as a power failure in Antarctica. One of the January cast-offs that failed to make the cut in the 2018 year-end releases, it’s a good example of why January is always dreary, in more ways than one.
By Rex Reed FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Sight Unseen Pictures, Code Red Productions, Scythia Films
Release Date Jan 4, 2019
Duration 1 h 44 m
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Awards

Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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