Sleep, My Love

Film - 1948

7,0

71.3K

Sleep, My Love it's a movie with Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche, Rita Johnson, George Coulouris Full cast. Directed by Douglas Sirk. Original title Sleep, My Love Genres Drama, Mystery.

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Balkan Castevet

Douglas Sirk is a master of classic Hollywood cinema, Sleep, My Love/Donne e veni is not among his most famous films but it is a masterfully directed noir that has points of interest. The film plays on the false madness or otherwise of the protagonist Alisson and from the beginning the direction through the train journey and the reactions of the protagonist manages to make her immediately uncomfortable. The direction plays a lot in showing Alisson dominated by the various scenarios, the interiors of the house are excellent, the refinement of staging by Sirk is always great. The photography is also beautiful and when used with darks it reaches excellent heights, during the psychiatric "session" the beam of white light on Alisson's eyes with the rest of the frame in shadow is wonderful and recalls a certain effect of Browning's Dracula For some directorial touches the film anticipates the Italian detective story a little, for example the detail of the glove that opens the door or the small long-shot sequences of a "hypnotized" Alisson wandering around the house in POV. In general they are the waiting times and atmosphere work very well, plus the elegance, the chiaroscuro, the play of shadows that Sirk manages to give are of notable impact. The memorable balcony sequence is worth highlighting. On the writing if the intrigues between Alisson, her husband Richard and Bruce, the only character who offers comfort situations to the protagonist, work; the femme fatale Daphne who has an impactful stage presence and where Sirk's direction always gives excellent paintings, she remains a purely "functional" character without too much exploration. The same goes for the "psychiatrist" who comes out at the end even indicating a potential plan of his but never staged in the film, a few more comparisons between him and Richard would have been helpful. However, the film works well in the Read all

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A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.