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While the Women Are Sleeping

2016

Wayne Wang

Takeshi Kitano, Shiori Kutsuna, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Sayuri Oyamada

4.6

431

Drama. Mystery While vacationing with his wife, a writer (Hidetoshi Nishijima) begins following another man (Takeshi Kitano) and woman (Shiori Kutsuna) who are guests at the resort hotel where he stays.

	Author	Review
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"A stylish psycho noir (...) The result has the calculated fascination of a Patricia Highsmith thriller, though minus her moral ironies and plus some very Wang-ian tongue-in-cheek satire"	POS
United States	Maggie Lee Variety	"An unsatisfying foray into sexual obsession (...) Glacial and antiseptic (...) The film is tinged with Freudian mumbo-jumbo and recycled meta-fictive tropes"	NEG
United Kingdom	Kohei Usuda Screendaily	"This doesn’t quite reach the artistic heights of Abbas Kiarostami’s similarly-themed Japanese-language drama 'Like Someone in Love' (...) The film’s modernist aesthetic is satisfying throughout"	NEU

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