Review of Siesta

Siesta (1987)
1/10
Sleep
1 November 2008
Sieata. A 90 minute sleep. This is the worst film made. A perfect example of how not to make a movie. How to avoid story, development, purpose. It can't even be surreal when it tries to be.

It has no idea. Like most "art films" it's artless, and only paints boredom.

It consists of characters doing nothing, but vague disconnected rambling, with no action. The only skillful part is Jodie Foster's English accent. Also a quirky poem from Sands.

It's this kind of crap that puts me off films. I hate it.

A review mentioned Jacob's Ladder. That skillful and powerful film showed how an original or different film can be made, with definite surreal moments - actual changes that can't occur in reality - scary scenes, excitement, with clear or specific messages and intentions you couldn't miss.

This film called Sleep is utterly powerless. The dreariest dream with no intelligence. Even the "shock" ending seems implied.

Erotic thriller? The first part (ho hum) is there, about as excessively as the other qualities. Minus 10 stars (for how many stars are in it).
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