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May 6, 2009 · Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "The Perfect Sleep" puts me in mind of a flywheel spinning in the void. It is all burnished brass and shining steel, perfectly balanced as it hums in its orbit; yet, because it occupies a void, it satisfies only itself and touches nothing else.
Mar 13, 2009 · The Perfect Sleep. A tortured man returns to a city he never wanted to see again to save the woman he loves.
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- Jeremy Alter
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- Anton Pardoe
Mar 27, 2009 · Directed by Jeremy Alter. Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller. R. 1h 39m. By Jeannette Catsoulis. March 26, 2009. Easy on the eyes but brutal on the ears, “The Perfect Sleep” fuses Shakespearean...
- Jeremy Alter
The very name of The Perfect Sleep, with its play on Raymond Chandler's best known and most filmed title, promises noir – and the film certainly delivers on that, with its narrating agent, its femme fatale, its murky morality, its labyrinthine plotting and its underworld setting.
Easy on the eyes but brutal on the ears, The Perfect Sleep fuses Shakespearean tragedy and noir iconography into a strange, lovely, leaden ball of confusion.
Mar 26, 2009 · Witty, self-aware and consistently compelling, The Perfect Sleep revels in its contrivances: A nameless hood (Pardoe) haunts various L.A. cinematic landmarks looking for a lost love (Sanchez ...
Mar 13, 2009 · The Perfect Sleep: Directed by Jeremy Alter. With Anton Pardoe, Anthony Dilio, David Beck, Ken Clark. Against the backdrop of a noirish dreamscape, a tortured man returns to the city he swore he would never return to, in order to save the woman he has always loved yet can never have.
