![]() III was well done, competently performed and beautifully designed, but I remembered being oddly uderwhelmed by it, without really remembering why, and something about watching Sleepless Beauty nagged at me a bit, so I decided to go back and watch it again.īut first, the more recent one. Sleepless Beauty is directed by Pavel Khvaleev and written by his wife Aleksandra Khvaleeva, and they also worked together on the 2015 folk horror piece III (AKA III: The Ritual), which I originally passed over as a candidate for inclusion in We Don’t Go Back after seeing it because at the time I didn’t feel it had a whole lot to say. What it sets out to do, however, is to present an entirely nihilistic and depressing portrayal of the worst impulses of human nature, and the worst things humans can do to humans, and then to indict the viewer for participating. You’ve been warned.įor what it is, Sleepless Beauty is not a technically bad movie. The same goes to a slightly lesser extent for its 2015 predecessor III. Do you want to see it? That’s a question that inspires an inhalation through gritted teeth, really. But in giving away what there is of the film’s plot, I rob you of having any reason to see it. Also, there isn’t a whole lot of plot to give away. This is because everything that's interesting in the movie – and there’s quite a lot that’s interesting – is rear-loaded, and depends upon you having seen it. ![]() I am going to give away all the plot developments in the Russian torturefest that is Sleepless Beauty (the original title, Я не сплю, translates as “I am not sleeping”). ![]()
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