Sleeping Beauty – A top on films about sleep

20 November, 2019

How do filmmakers address sleep, one of the most mundane everyday events? Although almost every movie includes at least one sequence of waking up (whether it's believable or not, feverish or not), only a few of them focus on sleep as the main topic in the film. And why is that? Nobody wants to hover on the face of an actor who doesn't use his body or eyes, an actor who, in fact, plays nothing. However, the list below proves the opposite, assuming that while resting, human bodies are fragile and immobile, that sleep is an intimate experience, but also a very meaningful little door with the subconscious of each individual.

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Journalist and film critic, with a master's degree in film critics. Collaborates with Scena9, Acoperișul de Sticlă, FILM and FILM Menu magazines. For Films in Frame, she brings the monthly top of films and writes the monthly editorial Panorama, published on a Thursday. In her spare time, she retires in the woods where she pictures other possible lives and flying foxes.