The Sleepwalkers

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Holiday tensions rise to a boil for the Argentinean family at the center of Paula Hernández’s masterfully controlled film. At a country house, an extended clan gathers to celebrate the New Year. The focus is on Luisa, who’s facing a troubled marriage, and her daughter, Ana, whose adolescent struggles include worrisome bouts of somnambulism. The return of a volatile cousin, coupled with sexual frustrations simmering around the house amid the palpable summer heat, lead to a series of crises that unfurl in increasingly dramatic fashion.

“[A] deliciously observed, tightly focused drama about a family falling apart over a New Year’s vacation. Scripted and shot with an open-eyed attention to psychological detail that belies its title, simmering throughout with tension, Hernández’s fifth feature works on a small canvas, refreshingly making no claims to be anything more than a study of the dynamics at work within one particular family.” –Jonathan Holland, The Hollywood Reporter

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