2015 · fantasy · comedy · drama
Girl Asleep
Directed by Rosemary Myers1h 17m2015
The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen, she can’t bear to leave her childhood; it contains all the things that give her comfort in an incomprehensible new world. She floats in a bubble of loserdom with her only friend, Elliott, until her parents throw her a surprise fifteenth birthday party and she’s flung into a parallel place—a world that’s weirdly erotic, a little bit violent, and thoroughly ludicrous. Only there can she find herself.
Our read: Girl Asleep (2015) reads as a warm, kinetic, surreal fantasy · comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, kinetic, gentle fantasy / comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- surreal
- intimate
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