Siesta (1987)

Directed by

Mary Lambert

Genre

drama film

Country

United States, Spain

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

R

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 45 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A daredevil woman faces a potentially fatal leap. Her final days are filled with encounters with lost souls including a guardian angel, a sorceress, and the angel of death.

dreamlikeatmosphericunsettlingmeditativesurrealbroodingmysteriousslow-burn

What happens

Siesta is a 1987 American experimental drama film directed by Mary Lambert and starring Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne and Jodie Foster. According to a 1987 article in The Los Angeles Times, the film "follows a daredevil through her final days leading up to a potentially fatal leap. Rife with Jungian imagery, the film is a post-modern fable of destiny and change, peopled with a gallery of lost souls including a guardian angel (played by British heartthrob Julian Sands), a sorceress (played by pop star Grace Jones) and the angel of death (Alexei Sayle)." It also stars Martin Sheen and Isabella Rossellini. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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