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- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoIt would be easy to dismiss House of the Sleeping Beauties as a lewd male fantasy, but that would be ignoring the German film's deeper purpose as - in the words of the director, Vadim Glowna - a meditation on "transition, remembrance, mourning, guilt, loneliness, sex and death, eroticism and dying."
- 50SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirA self-indulgent and icky film, but reasonably well made and undeniably addictive.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckUltimately, the film doesn't succeed in its thematic aspirations, proving yet again that great literature doesn't usually transfer successfully to the screen.
- With the mounting number of first-rate, even masterly foreign-language films locked out of movie theaters due to wary distributors, it's worth pondering why such laughable dreck as German actor-writer-director Vadim Glowna's House of the Sleeping Beauties actually made it through.
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertHouse of the Sleeping Beauties has missed its ideal release window by about 40 years. It might -- might -- have found an audience in that transitional period between soft- and hard-core.
- 10The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisNot even the august presence of Maximilian Schell can dispel the odor of fusty smut that clings to House of the Sleeping Beauties, a clammy meditation on sex, death and the endless fascination of unclothed innocence.
- 0Village VoiceVillage VoiceOne of the year's worst releases. A second viewing of "Synecdoche" would be less painful.
- 0Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesGlowna presents this smoky German feature as an elegy for lost youth, but it's so tumescent with male self-pity that I couldn't wait for it to end.