Product Details

• Actors: Roselyn Sanchez
• Directors: Jeremy Alter
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: Unknown (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Unknown (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Magnolia Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: June 16, 2009
• Run Time: 106 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001UW59M6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60,404 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Perfect Sleep" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Magnolia Pict Hm Ent Release Date: 06/16/2009 Rating: R

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Self-indulgent, pointlessly byzantine pseudo noir, July 9, 2010

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K. Swanson (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Perfect Sleep (DVD)

Perfect Sleep is ridiculous. It wants to be every noir ever made, using all their tropes and cliches while thinking it's both celebrating and mocking the genre in its sad post-modernist deconstructive cinematic onanism.

What emerges (barely) from this ooze is a well-shot film that looks good but feels like a failed term project from a fine cinematographer saddled with a crappy writer who thinks he can laugh at noir conventions while providing none of their satisfactions. The narrative goes non-stop the first 20 minutes and is pointlessly twisted, giving us zero reason to care about anyone or anything. Part of the joy of noir is being SPARE...not throwing every narrative idea and the kitchen sink as well into the pot.

The acting is a joke, ditto the direction. Watch The Big Sleep or Chinatown or The Maltese Falcon or DOA or Double Indemnity and then watch this for some true perspective. They are art at a high level; this is pretension at a high level.

Absolutely unrecommended for any fan of noir, unless you want to turn off the sound and make up your own story and dialogue. Not a bad idea, actually. You could not do worse than this Perfect Mess.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars ok take on film noir, November 23, 2010

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dannho - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Perfect Sleep (Amazon Instant Video)

This review is for the Amazon VOD rental of this film. This film is very hit and miss.
The film is well shot with some beautiful scenes. I found the narrative over every scene
to be a drawback. The narrator/main character seems to speak non-stop without telling
the viewer much of anything. I give the film high points on ambition but it fails to
deliver on it. I have to say Roselyn Sanchez is a very good actress and such a lovely
woman but even she can not overcome the material she is working with.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating but flawed, October 19, 2009

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J. B Kraft "lonestargazer" (Palestine, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Perfect Sleep (DVD)

The cinematography is classic and extremely stylish (if self-indulgent) film noir. The plot provides excellent opportunities to intrigue us. The narrative of the unnamed protagonist-assassin is overblown in the extreme -- at times lending structure to the plot and at other times ranging from enigmatic to incomprehensible.

The assassin without a name (who is part samarai, part kick boxer, and part masochist) loves a beautiful woman he was raised with -- why? There are so many questions about why somebody wants to kill someone else? Interesting characters who seem significant drop in for a few minutes until they are killed without clear motives. Ultimately, he must kill or be killed by the man who raise him or the woman he loves, but can never possess, will be killed.

The plot is more Russian than anything else, and the movie untimately inhabits that uneasy space between action movie and film noire. While the acting and directing is very solid, the movie is overall far too pretentious, and its self-indulgence ultimately spoils an otherwise satisfactory ending. The sound track was also indecipherable at times.

That said, the actors all give fine performances in this ultimately unsatisfying movie, and the locations and cinematography make this a worthy view.