Girl Asleep (2015)

Directed by

Rosemary Myers

Genre

independent film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 17m

Rated

11

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 130 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A shy teenage girl navigates the awkwardness of turning 15 in 1970s Australia. Her world blurs with a surreal fantasy when her parents throw her a party that leads into a strange dream adventure.

quirkydreamlikewhimsicalintrospectiveplayfulsurrealnostalgicoddball

What happens

Girl Asleep is a 2015 Australian surrealist coming-of-age drama film written by Matthew Whittet and directed by Rosemary Myers. The film has been described as an extroverted fantasy dreamscape of an introverted teenage girl. The film is an adaptation of the successful theatre production, also written by Matthew Whittet, by Windmill Theatre in 2014 of the same name, that premiered at the Adelaide Festival. The cast includes: Bethany Whitmore, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Imogen Archer, Harrison Feldman, Amber McMahon, Eamon Farren, scriptwriter Matthew Whittet and Maiah Stewardson. Girl Asleep showed at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival to critical acclaim, and garnered the top prize at CinefestOZ, the richest film prize in Australia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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