House of the Sleeping Beauties
First Run Features | Release Date: November 14, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
21
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
1
Negative:
6
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75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
It would be easy to dismiss House of the Sleeping Beauties as a lewd male fantasy, but that would be ignoring the German film's deeper purpose as - in the words of the director, Vadim Glowna - a meditation on "transition, remembrance, mourning, guilt, loneliness, sex and death, eroticism and dying." Read full review
50
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
A self-indulgent and icky film, but reasonably well made and undeniably addictive. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
Ultimately, the film doesn't succeed in its thematic aspirations, proving yet again that great literature doesn't usually transfer successfully to the screen. Read full review
25
Christian Science MonitorRobert Koehler
With the mounting number of first-rate, even masterly foreign-language films locked out of movie theaters due to wary distributors, it's worth pondering why such laughable dreck as German actor-writer-director Vadim Glowna's House of the Sleeping Beauties actually made it through. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
House of the Sleeping Beauties has missed its ideal release window by about 40 years. It might -- might -- have found an audience in that transitional period between soft- and hard-core. Read full review
10
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
Not even the august presence of Maximilian Schell can dispel the odor of fusty smut that clings to House of the Sleeping Beauties, a clammy meditation on sex, death and the endless fascination of unclothed innocence. Read full review
0
Village VoiceVadim Rizov
One of the year's worst releases. A second viewing of "Synecdoche" would be less painful. Read full review
0
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Glowna presents this smoky German feature as an elegy for lost youth, but it's so tumescent with male self-pity that I couldn't wait for it to end. Read full review
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