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Bookmark this pageHouse of the Sleeping Beauties (2006)
Director: Vadim Glowna
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From Time Out New York
A meandering, self-indulgent rumination on old age, death and unfulfillable desire (or unrepentant horniness), German actor-director Vadim Glowna’s adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata’s surreal, ironic short story gets everything but the surrealism and irony right. This shifts the tale—about a brothel in which impotent old men pay to cuddle with artificially slumbering hotties—away from Kawabata’s reflective critique of youth-draining machismo, to a visually lush occasion for Glowna to show the world he can still get it up.Author: Mark Holcomb
Time Out New York Issue 685: November 13 - 19, 2008
Cast & crew
Director: Vadim Glowna
Cast: Vadim Glowna, Angela Winkler, Maximilian Schell, Birol Ünel full cast
Duration: 99 mins
US Release: Nov 14 2008
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