Sleep (2023)
(Jam)
Country: KOR
Technical: col 95m
Director: Jason Yu
Cast: Jung Yu-mi, Lee Sun-kyun, Kim Gook-hee
Synopsis:
A young mother-to-be begins to suspect that her husband is being taken over by the spirit of their former neighbour, while he is asleep.
Review:
Divided into chapters reflecting the growing anxieties of the lead character (broadly, home, baby, self-preservation), this is a supernatural tale interwoven with the commonplace traumas of motherhood and marriage. Added to which, the phenomenon of sleep, a total surrender to external forces, makes for an ideal backdrop to the various 'péril en la demeure' tropes that pepper the narrative. Tightly wrought, and shot in the clinical, graphic style familiar from Korean cinema, this is an impressive first feature, not without a streak of gallows humour.
(Jam)
Country: KOR
Technical: col 95m
Director: Jason Yu
Cast: Jung Yu-mi, Lee Sun-kyun, Kim Gook-hee
Synopsis:
A young mother-to-be begins to suspect that her husband is being taken over by the spirit of their former neighbour, while he is asleep.
Review:
Divided into chapters reflecting the growing anxieties of the lead character (broadly, home, baby, self-preservation), this is a supernatural tale interwoven with the commonplace traumas of motherhood and marriage. Added to which, the phenomenon of sleep, a total surrender to external forces, makes for an ideal backdrop to the various 'péril en la demeure' tropes that pepper the narrative. Tightly wrought, and shot in the clinical, graphic style familiar from Korean cinema, this is an impressive first feature, not without a streak of gallows humour.
(Jam)
Country: KOR
Technical: col 95m
Director: Jason Yu
Cast: Jung Yu-mi, Lee Sun-kyun, Kim Gook-hee
Synopsis:
A young mother-to-be begins to suspect that her husband is being taken over by the spirit of their former neighbour, while he is asleep.
Review:
Divided into chapters reflecting the growing anxieties of the lead character (broadly, home, baby, self-preservation), this is a supernatural tale interwoven with the commonplace traumas of motherhood and marriage. Added to which, the phenomenon of sleep, a total surrender to external forces, makes for an ideal backdrop to the various 'péril en la demeure' tropes that pepper the narrative. Tightly wrought, and shot in the clinical, graphic style familiar from Korean cinema, this is an impressive first feature, not without a streak of gallows humour.