Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #128. Mona Fastvold’s The Sleepwalker

The Sleepwalker

Director: Mona Fastvold
Writers: Mona Fastvold, Brady Corbet
Producers: 4 1⁄2′s Karin Julsrud and Turid Øversveen, Tandem Pictures’ Julie Christeas and Schuyler Weiss
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Gitte Witt, Christopher Abbott, Brady Corbet, Stephanie Ellis

American indie meets Fjord sensibilities from a video/short filmmaker who was an unknown up until the mention of a collaboration with Brady Corbet on his forthcoming directorial debut, The Childhood of a Leader. Unsurprisingly, the forthy, crispy cold, moody Bergmanesque drama with plenty of unresolve played like another Corbet-starring anti-Sundance vehicle in Simon Killer. We’re looking forward to our repeat viewing.

Gist: Written by Fastvold and Corbet, we find a young attractive couple renovating their Le Corbusier-like estate in the woods…Their lives are soon dismantled upon the arrival of unexpected guests. The Sleepwalker pokes at genre expectations and narrative contrivance in an effort to reveal something altogether more disturbing.

Release Date: It premiered at Sundance, and should lock up theatrical distribution deal for the U.S shortly.

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