Sleeper
- cosy
- brisk
- inventive
- funny
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
Our read · Sleeper (1973) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive comedy · sci-fi entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Sleeper
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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