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Sleep Is A Near-Perfect Horror Comedy
The South Korean film, from Bong Joon Ho protégé Jason Yu, is a rollicking ride about sleepwalking and marriage.
Lee’s suicide, which led to new scrutiny of South Korea’s high-pressure celeb culture and punishing media coverage, adds an unavoidable tinge of tragedy to a performance that’s as wickedly funny as it is frightening. Sleep may be modest, taking place largely in the one-bedroom Hyun-su and Soo-jin share, but that modesty is a strength, with every well-loved detail of the set reflecting the relationship the couple assumed was unshakably solid. Yu uses each foot of the confined space to his full advantage — a scene in which blood has been tracked across this place of cozy domesticity plays like a defilement — and shows how an intimate home can become a threateningly claustrophobic arrangement in a sequence in which Soo-jin seeks refuge in the bathroom, the camera mirroring her wary gaze.
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