Non ho sonno (Sleepless) (2001)
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Director Dario Argento, best known for his stylishly bloody horror films, revisits the style and themes of his early directorial efforts in this tense crime thriller. A prostitute (Barbara Lerici) discovers one of her customers has a taste for much rougher sex than she's willing to give him;… More Director Dario Argento, best known for his stylishly bloody horror films, revisits the style and themes of his early directorial efforts in this tense crime thriller. A prostitute (Barbara Lerici) discovers one of her customers has a taste for much rougher sex than she's willing to give him; trying to sneak away from her john, she accidentally walks off with one of his scrapbooks, from which she discovers her client apparently committed a series of unsolved murders almost 20 years earlier. The john tracks down the prostitute and murders her to insure her silence; this awakens in him the desire to kill again, and soon he's once again leaving a bloody swath across Italy. Ulisse Moretti (Max Von Sydow), the police detective who investigated the earlier wave of killings, is brought out of retirement when clues link the new murders to those committed in the early '80s, and the aging cop finds his sometimes foggy memory jolted back to recognition by the growing number of bloody victims. Meanwhile, Giacomo (Stefano Dionisi), whose saw his mother being killed by the murderer as a boy, learns that the killer is back at work, and sets out to investigate the case on his own. Non Ho Sonno features an original musical score by the rock band Goblin, who also wrote music for a number of Argento's best-known films. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Dario Argento
- Written By
- Franco Ferrini, Dario Argento
- Genres
- Horror, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 2001 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Alan Simpson, Sex Gore Mutants
a rehashed trip down memory lane?
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Eric Campos, Mars Colony
Sleepless is full-force Argento.
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Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
Gorgeous but overbaked "mama's boy" thriller from master Argento.
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Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central
The entire exercise is a heartrending one, particularly for fans of the horror auteur who held hopes that Sleepless would return Argento to form.
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Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com
The ending's actually pretty good -- it just takes too long in getting there.
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Cast
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Max von Sydow
as Ulisse Moretti
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Stefano Dionisi
as Giacomo
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Chiara Caselli
as Gloria
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Rossella Falk
as Laura De Fabritius
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Paolo Maria Scalondro
as Commissioner Manni
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Roberto Zibetti
as Lorenzo
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Gabriele Lavia
as Lorenzo's Father
- Massimo Sarchielli
- Barbara Lerici
- Roberto Accornero