State Like Sleep
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Synopsis
A year after the violent death of her celebrity husband, widow Katherine (Katherine Waterston) is still mourning his loss. Her grief is complicated by an inability to stop thinking about the circumstances that lead to her loss.
As Katherine deals with her husband’s overbearing, bitter mother (Julie Khaner) and her own ailing mom (Mary Kay Place, of Diane) she has intimate moments with a strange businessman (Michael Shannon) staying in her hotel, and her husband’s sleazy friend, Emile (Luke Evans). This hazy, sometimes perfectly seedy neo-noir from writer/director Meredith Danluck is as colorful as it is moody, and constantly surprising.
Cast
- Katherine Waterston
- Michiel Huisman
- Luke Evans
- Michael Shannon
- Mary Kay Place
- Mark O'Brien
- Rachel Wilson
- George Tchortov
- Bo Martyn
- Tessa Mossey
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Danluck (“North of South, West of East”) gets us halfway there, with a solid cast and crew, an apt depiction of emotional exhaustion, and a heroine we want to root for in a strange setting we’re ready to embrace. But she floats too ineffectually between dream and nightmare, never settling on one or committing to the other.
I’d say writer-director Danluck’s story unravels entirely too easily, but that’s crediting her with “raveling” that she never quite gets around to.