The sleepy time gal full#

The way memories are shown is very inventive, by use of black-and-white film sped up and blurred images, still photographs and paintings and camcorder footage. First of all, the acting is great - Jacqueline Bisset deservedly got lots of praise and is equalled (thankfully, otherwise the film could have fallen apart) in ability and scope by Martha Plimpton's performance.

The sleepy time gal full#

Don't get me wrong though, this isn't a film full of major surprises or twists it's more a film about honesty and emotion. However, this does actually (eventually) play to the films strengths, as we discover more things about the characters and previous scenes make more sense. Very little information is offered as to what the hell is going on, and I found myself a little 'sleepy' myself. The other problem is the first 20 minutes or so. Ok, maybe some people do speak like this, but in the context of the film it feels a little daft. At one point Rebecca says to someone she's recently met 'I admire your pragmatism'. Unfortunately, this yearning extends to the dialogue, and some of the characters have the most ridiculously over-articulate conversations, even if they're just talking about everyday things. This is a very lyrical film, striving for and often achieving a kind of cinematic poetry. The two characters stories link together in various ways as, separately, each remembers and learns more about their lives.ДЇirstly, I should get some criticism out the way. Meanwhile, in a different city, Rebecca, unhappy with her job as a lawyer and split from her boyfriend, decides to seek out some questions to her own life, including finding her birth mother, and start afresh. Frances, a mother, former writer and DJ, and lover of architecture and history, discovers she has terminal cancer, and so aims to tie up the loose ends of her life and spend time with her son. Sleepy Time Gal is one of those brilliant films that could only be part of American indie cinema.