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Unmade Beds

United Kingdom

2009

93 Min
Color
1.85:1
French, Spanish, English
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DIR Alexis Dos Santos

EXEC Peter Carlton, Lizzie Francke

PROD Peter Ettedgui, Soledad Gatti-Pascual

SCR Alexis Dos Santos, Marianela Maldonado

DP Jakob Ihre

CAST Déborah François, Fernando Tielve, Michiel Huisman, Iddo Goldberg, Richard Lintern, Leonardo Brzezicki, Alexis Dos Santos, Katia Winter, Lucy Tillet, Al Weaver

ED Olivier Bugge Coutté

PROD DES Kristian Milsted

SOUND Jake Roberts, Barnab Templer

San Francisco (Closing Night), Edinburgh (British Gala), São Paulo, Berlinale (Generation), Sundance (World Cinema Dramatic Competition), Rotterdam (Bright Future), Melbourne (International Panorama), Vancouver, Mar del Plata

Synopsis

Alexis Dos Santos’ vivid, seductive second feature follows its endearing metropolitan drifters around a wholly persuasive nocturnal landscape of grubby flatshares, hipster warehouse parties and drug-related instant friendships. Fernando Tielve and Déborah François play Axl and Vera, a peripatetic Spanish naïf and New Wave-y Belgian heartbreaker trying to forge their respective paths to happiness. With shades of both Michel Gondry and Wong Kar-wei, this is an idiosyncratic, atmospheric and absolutely winning anti-romance. —Edinburgh International Film Festival

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Alexis Dos Santos

Alexis Dos Santos grew up in Patagonia. He studied architecture and acting in Buenos Aires before moving to London to train as a director at the National Film and Television School. He returned to Patagonia to make his debut feature. Glue premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, winning the MovieZone Award-the first of 15 international awards. Unmade Beds, his second film, was written under the auspices of a Cinefondation writing residency in Paris. —sundance.org 

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HKFanatic

29Mar12

A group of gorgeous young European expatriates stumble through their drunken, dis-remembered London nights. Director Alexis Dos Santos has a real heart for youth culture, which keeps the film from feeling exploitative even when flesh is on display. Entirely sweet and pleasurable to watch, with authentic dialogue. Kind of like "Chunking Express" transplanted to the UK indie scene, which is not a bad thing at all.

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5 o'clock coffee

15Feb12

Images + (great) songs + beautiful/stylish photography. Although I enjoyed a lot Vera' storyline, the film is not much more than a MTV video clip. unfortunately.

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JolieG1

1Jan12

Hot bartender at 11:00 ! I loved this movie and the soundtrack is even better . Kinda leaves me wondering what's next for Vera and her beau . Besides that , this movie is righteous !

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narni

1Dec11

one of my new favourite movies; a brilliant soundtrack, good actors and just bloody amazing

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By In An Express​ion Of The Inexpre​ssible on November 20, 2009

I usually get annoyed by romantic comedies/dramas with their unrealistic picturing of love and relationships that is just making people live in a dreamworld with expectations that mostly never come…  read review

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By Brian Morisky on October 5, 2009

Not the insufferable horrible Amos Poe film. Unexpectedly compelling and at times touching narrative, considering the obvious Jules and JIm influence (lovers running, two guy one girl menage), at times…  read review

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