Sleep Tight / Mientras duermes (2011)
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Mientras duermes / Sleep Tight (2011)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 16:9 (720x576) | 01:36:47 | 6,33 Gb
Audio: Spanish DTS/AC3 5.1 @ 755/448 Kbps; Catalan AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller | Spain
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 16:9 (720x576) | 01:36:47 | 6,33 Gb
Audio: Spanish DTS/AC3 5.1 @ 755/448 Kbps; Catalan AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller | Spain
César works as a doorman in a Barcelona apartment building. He goes about his day to day work mainly unnoticed by the residents of the building, but he pays close attention to them. He knows all the intimate details of their lives, everything about them, specially one of them. In Clara he has found the perfect target, and he will go to extreme lengths to make her life miserable. But César is starting to get a bit too cocky, and soon his carefully thought out plans will start to unravel… Luckily for him, he has one last ace up his sleeve.
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César isn't happy.
By day, he toils anonymously as a concierge in a very lovely, historic apartment building in the middle of a bustling city. He might as well be invisible; the residents do not even acknowledge his presence when he holds the lobby door open for them. A little girl acts like a brat towards him, unloading a mouthful of milk on the front desk counter for some unfathomable reason.
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Perhaps the biggest insult comes from Clara, a beautiful young woman who treats him just like the other residents do, like hired help, even though we saw him get up from her bed that morning!
On his lunch break, César heads off to visit his mother in a hospital. She is an old, old lady, confined to her bed, unable to talk, not even recognizing her son. who patiently speaks to her about his challenging day. When he returns to work, the landlord rags on him for being late (again). César bears all his troubles in quiet desperation. He very much wants to be happy. He tries so hard. But true happiness seems like an unobtainable goal.
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César is in terrible agony. Clearly he internalizes his feelings, keeping a placid smile on his face, and maintaining an extremely calm disposition, no matter the price he may be paying emotionally. Anyone who has suffered from bouts of clinical depression can sympathize with César. Maybe it wasn't you, but it was a friend or family member, and you saw the sadness and despair written in their body language, and you empathized, wishing you could make it all go away.
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Then we see where César spends the night, and everything changes.
Sleep Tight (AKA Mientras duermes), directed by Jaume Balagueró from an original screenplay by Alberto Marini, quickly erases any possible concern that limiting the action to a single apartment building, a la [REC] and [REC] 2 (both of which Balagueró co-directed with Paco Plaza), might be an attempt to recreate the claustrophobic tension of those horror flicks.
The thing is, Sleep Tight never feels claustrophobic. Much of the action takes place during the daytime, the lobby and apartments are spacious and filled with windows that let in the light, and even at night it never feels like the shadows are what you need to fear. What's really scary is what a certain individual is capable of dreaming up.
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The "villain," in this case, is someone who definitely doesn't look to be one, yet hatches plans that are truly diabolical. It's evil on a level that is so deranged, I found myself laughing, not because it struck me as silly or stupid, but because I thought the twists were very clever indeed. With the aid of his fellow craftsmen, Balagueró creates scenes that are the definition of nerve-jangling, not necessarily because of the threat of extreme physical violence – though that's an always-present concern when you're dealing with a villain this cruel – but because it's dangling out at the edge of believability.
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Perhaps Balagueró crosses the line a time or two. But I savored every suspenseful moment that flew by, literally biting my nails, right up to the dreaded, though somewhat inevitable, time bomb of an ending.
Luis Tosar gives a deceptively quiet and very strong performance as César, while Marta Etura presents a dramatic counterpoint as the optimistic, positive-thinking Clara. The rest of the cast is uniformly strong; young Iris Almeida plays the bratty Ursula, and Petra Martínez is warm and convincing as a friendly older resident. Behind the camera, Pablo Rosso, who also shot the [REC] films, demonstrates his fluid versatility as a cinematographer.
You may not be able to do what the title suggests after you see this movie.
Sleep Tight / Mientras duermes (2011)
Special Features:
- Trailer
- Teaser
- Spots TV
- Clips (Cesar, Clara Y Ursula)
- Making Of
Sleep Tight / Mientras duermes (2011)
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