House of the Sleeping Beauties (2006)

Original title

Das Haus der schlafenden Schönen

Directed by

Vadim Glowna

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 39m

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

An aging man visits a brothel where elderly clients sleep next to drugged young women. He forms a bond with the woman who runs the establishment and reflects on his own mortality.

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What happens

The House of Sleeping Beauties is a German drama feature film starring and directed by Vadim Glowna. Released in 2006, the film is the third film adaptation of the 1961 novella The House of the Sleeping Beauties (眠れる美女, Nemureru Bijo) by Japanese Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata. Other leading cast are Maximilian Schell and Angela Winkler. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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