Film Festival 09 - Unmade Beds
Unmade Beds
UK 2009, 92m
Director: Alexis Dos Santos
Festivals: Sundance, Rotterdam, New Directors/New Films 2009
Dreamily sensuous, the year's freshest, most sweetly inclusive date
movie, Unmade Beds is a lyrical tale of two solitary expats
crossing paths in the international art-rock milieu of a sprawling
East London squat. 20-year-old Axl has come from Spain to find his
long-lost English father. Axl drinks himself into forgetting at
night, awaking each morning to another set of nonchalant hosts and
lovers. Vera is a French-speaking beauty, wounded in love and
oozing continental ennui at her bookstore job. She responds to a
stranger's flirtation with games of mystery and intrigue and risks
losing the lover of her life in the process. Lively with New Wave
inventiveness, Unmade Beds feels shaped by longing and parties and
its wonderfully eclectic soundtrack. Among the bands making cameo
appearances Connan Mockasin add a touch of Kiwi to young Argentine
director Alexis dos Santos's romantic vision of cosmopolitan
21st-century Bohemia.
In English and French, with English subtitles
