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Stories Keep Me Awake at Night

Country: Belgium, Language: French, 30 mins

Original Title

Nuits Sans Sommeil
  • Director: Jérémy van der Haegen
  • Writer: Jérémy van der Haegen

CGiii Comment

What a cold and barren film this is.

Jérémy van der Haegen needs to mull over his composition...because, there are some scenes that looks stilted and staged.

The kids out-acts everyone...

The nudity is inappropriate and, if these were actual parents, a worry. The father wandering around with everything exposed, parents having sex with their door open...there's liberal and then there are kids wandering around!

As for the implied ending...a bit obvious, considering a prior scene!


Trailer...

Stories keep me awake at night (Nuits Sans Sommeil) Trailer from NUITS SANS SOMMEIL on Vimeo.

The(ir) Blurb...

Stories Keep Me Awake At Night is the portrait of day-to-day childhood. A village, a family, a little boy who likes to wear dresses, the return of the wolf and everyday life, ordinary, banal. These elements are used to tell of hidden desires.

Cast & Characters

Vidal Arzoni (as Oscar)
Jessica Batut (as The mother)
Alyssia Desmeth (as Laura)
Sébastien Vion (as The Father)