You're Sleeping, Nicole (2014)

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It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

...is the lead virtue and good motif for see it. because, at the first sigh, the story do not exist. a young woman levels to self discover. dialogues, plans, relations, experiences. and, in final, answers. to herself. about life, the others, forms of happiness and ways to escape from the borders of a deep crisis. all in a seductive film, seductive for the grace of Julianne Cote performance and for a sort of minimalism who is the right prize for a part of public.

What a great undiscovered gem. This film captures the lives of the characters (especially that of Nicole) by means of quiet understated scenes that convey perfectly the accumulated stress of sleeplessness, hanging out with the somewhat random group of people we find ourselves with in our early 20s, and the integrity and struggles of the main character. This movie captures life as it is lived. It also captures the casual infliction of slights and hurts that are likely part of every life. Scenes appear at first to be randomly presented but the structure of the plot emerges and, with it, the characters start to become 3 dimensional.

Odd but wonderful Quebecois film about a young woman, Nicole (Julianne Côté), who is spending a lazy summer at her parents' house while they're away. Much of the time her best friend (Catherine St-Laurent) is hanging out with her, and her brother and his two band members also spend most of their time there, practicing. The mood of this film is quite different: it's very quiet, relaxed. You really get the sense of the ennui of Nicole's existence. Many will find it slow, but I found it both lovely and sad. It's also quite funny. Maybe not laugh-out-loud funny, but slyly amusing. The cinematography is a crisp black and white. I loved it.

Tu Dors Nicole is a film that begins in black and white tracing the life of two young girls. One is the quieter one who bemoans the excessive personality of her other friend but doesn't ever show any sort of emotion because she thinks she is above showing emotion. No redeeming quality in her character other than a willingness to wait for change while it comes without jumping to any station. I think it annoyed people around her too, the way she was, slow, contemplative, waiting for the wind to change.Overall, I didn't hate or love this film but felt it really lacked any cinematic boldness. I would go as far as saying it was one of the most unfrench french films I have seen trailing the exhausting life of a lost young girl who's brother plays great guitar, and the brothers summer she love/hates..and this other guy who's just awkward. The saving grace of the film was that little kid who loves nicole. But then, that prevented it from hitting a 4/10 and oh well, I don't recommend this film at all. Ignore this.