| Review: You do not even want to take a sip of wine after watching this fascinating film about the horrors of drug addiction. I was not a fan of director Darren Aronofsky's debut film Pi, but this film proves to be a producer's vision and style without limits. Four people in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, are required to despair because of his drug use, being sad Ellen Burstyn as a beautiful Jewish widow who unwittingly becomes addicted to diet pills to help lose weight but to drag it to a world of hallucinations and paranoia. Burstyn is excellent. It's so refreshing to see such great veteran like her in a leading role as a challenge, which is to hell worse than the Exorcist.But this is a movie director if ever there was one. Aronofsky knows how to tell a story so dramatic with its use of sound, editing and cinematography. The score of the Kronos Quartet and Clint Mansell's music is the most amazing movie I've heard in a long time.Requiem sleep is not a film for everyone. Is the essence of independent filmmaking, a brave, attention, artful film that stays with you long after you leave the theater. This is not Hollywood gum. |
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