Das Haus der schlafenden Schönen (2006)
Das Haus der schlafenden Schönen (2006)
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Drama/Thriller | Director: Vadim Glowna | based on Yasunari Kawabata's "House of sleeping beauties" | Maximilian Schell, Angela Winkler
Edmond, a man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, is told about a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed alongside beautiful, sleeping young women, who stretch, roll over and dream, but never awaken. Bedazzled by their seductive yet innocent tenderness, but distressed about the reason for their deep sleep, he delves into the mystery of the house of sleeping beauties.
Leading American film critics whose voices are listened to, and, worse, whose opinions are believed, have condemned "Das Haus Der Schlafenden Schönen" (2000), directed by Vadim Glowna, as a filthy concoction even repugnant for dirty little old men.
In reality, the movie follows exactly the intentions of the director (whose statements can be read, if one can read, in the specials of the one and only international DVD version existing). The movie is about the sadness and emptiness of old age, the confrontation of sexual lust with the semiotic world of substitutes, a movie about a transition on whose one end is, in the case of the main character Edmond, played by Glowna himself, the sum of a still ongoing successful life, and on whose other end there is the eternal relapse into silence. The movie plays mainly in a strange kind of brothel, where men can go and are only allowed to watch the beautiful sleeping young womens' bodies. Any communication is excluded, because the girls have been heavily sedated by the strange "Puffmutter", played by the great German star Angela Winkler. Every attempt at waking the girls up - as well as to speak to them when they are met on the street - is "against the law of this house". People who see filthiness in these scenes, when the old man fondles the young unspent bodies, are incapable of understanding that between a wake and a sleeping person there is a con-textural abyss as big as between live and death. And this is said explicitly in the movie
Das Haus der schlafenden Schönen (2006)
Das Haus der schlafenden Schönen (2006)
Das Haus der schlafenden Schönen (2006)
Das Haus der schlafenden Schönen (2006)
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