Rotten
There are shadows on top of shadows. It's the film noir universe, all right. What does the title refer to? Perhaps to what you will enjoy during the film.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The Perfect Sleep
2009 · 1h 39m · R
Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Jeremy Alter
Overview
In a timeless city, a man with no name returns to the violent, brutal domain of assassins he left ten years before – back when they dubbed him The Mad Monk for his disregard for his own life and his intense devotion to one woman, Porphyria; a beautiful, luminescent woman; the girl he grew up with; the love of his life; the one thing he has ever wanted; the one thing he can never have.
Director and cast
- Jeremy Alter Director
- Roselyn Sánchez as Porphyria
- Patrick Bauchau as Nikolai
- Anton Pardoe as The Narrator
- Peter J. Lucas as Ivan
- Tony Amendola as Dr. Sebastian
- Sam Thakur as The Rajah
- Dominique Vandenberg as Keller
- Cameron Daddo as Rogozhin
- Michael Paré as Officer Pavlovich
- Isaac C. Singleton, Jr. as Gregor
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
38%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Easy on the eyes but brutal on the ears, The Perfect Sleep fuses Shakespearean tragedy and noir iconography into a strange, lovely, leaden ball of confusion.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Fresh
The disjointed story is no more comprehensible than The Big Sleep. Though Alter is no Howard Hawks and Pardoe and Sanchez are no Bogie and Bacall, this movie looks great. You won't nap through The Perfect Sleep.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Fresh
Alter's film is a rare pleasure.
Mark Holcomb, Time Out New York
Rotten
Style significantly trumps substance in The Perfect Sleep, a good-looking but convoluted homage to film noir, Russian literature and Shakespearean tragedy, among a few too many other things.
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
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