[SLEEP TIGHT screens Thursday January 24th at 9:00 pm and Friday January 25th at 7:30 pm at the Cleveland Cinematheque.]
Review by Bob Ignizio
If nothing else, Jaume Balagueró's
SLEEP TIGHT offers up a
delightfully creepy set up. We're introduced to Cesar (Luis Tosar),
the concierge at an apartment building who believes he was born
without the capacity for happiness. Nonetheless, he wakes up each day
trying to find a reason to keep on living instead of throwing himself
from the roof of the building where he works. One might think that
sharing a bed with the lovely Clara (Marta Etura) should be reason
enough, but as we soon learn things aren't always as they appear on
the surface. Why does Clara treat Cesar as just a lowly employee on
her way out of the building, and what sort of transaction is the
adolescent girl Ursula (Iris Almeida) conducting with him? Even
though we get the answers to these questions fairly early, Balagueró
still manages to maintain a heavy atmosphere of suspense throughout
SLEEP TIGHT.
