House of the Sleeping Beauties

Director: Vadim Glowna

Genre: Drama

Release Date: August 29, 2008 (U.S.)

Duration: 99 minutes

Cast: Vadim Glowna, Angela Winkler, Maximilian Schell, Birol Ünel, Mona Glass

Overview: Director Vadim Glowna explores such complex issues as loneliness, guilt, memory, mourning, sex, death and dying in this adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's novel concerning a very unusual Bordello catering to a clientele more unlikely. Edmond is a lonely man in his sixties past. On the advice of his friend older Kogi, Edmond visit a Bordello that allows the elderly rare opportunity to lie down next to beautiful, young women. The girls are drug before each session, ensuring that never really wake up to meet with clients. Presiding over this mystery is the establishment of 60 years of age, Madame, a woman who assumes the role of caregiver from mother to both girls and men who come to be with them. Whenever Edmond is next to one of the girls, memories of his previous life come flooding back. Edmond wants nothing more than to disappear into silence of death, while in the glorious sunshine on perfection of youth. One night, by chance, Edmond notes Madame his aides and dispose of a corpse. But while Edmond becomes morally conflicting about what he has seen, can not stop himself returning to the Bordello. When Madame Edmond begins questioning about the incident, the mystery only seems to deepen.