Winter Sleepers is exquisitely designed, for an intelligent adult audience. It requires patience, attention to detail, and some thought process; a movie that a group of people could actually engage in a discussion about. It has a Zen-like quality, with no wasted words, or moves. Through artful misdirection, the viewer is allowed to see all, while knowing little...leading to misperceptions. Characters and their relationships are revealed with poetic conciseness. I have been thinking much about this story, long after seeing it. Winter Sleepers prompts me to question many things.
Review of Winter Sleepers
Winter Sleepers
(1997)
A question of ultimate responsibility...an answer of Karma-like justice.
4 December 2000