SLEEPLESS IN NEW YORK
synopsis
Paralyzing, tormenting and overwhelming… Often laughed off as nothing more than an affliction of adolescence, lovesickness becomes the topic of a documentary film. The director and his cinematographer dive into the frenzied nights of the newly rejected. Nights full of pain and tears, yet also wakefulness and creativity. An anthropologist researches the astounding and profound processes that are unfolding in the brain of the lovesick. Has nature overdone it? The film explores the difficult path out of self-destructive obsessive behavior, toward a new self.
international title: | Sleepless in New York |
original title: | Sleepless in New York |
country: | Switzerland |
sales agent: | Films Transit International Inc./Quebec |
year: | 2014 |
genre: | documentary |
directed by: | Christian Frei |
film run: | 92' |
screenplay: | Christian Frei |
cinematography by: | Peter Indergand |
film editing: | Christian Frei, Lara Hacisalihzade |
music: | Max Richter, Eleni Karaindrou, Giya Kancheli |
producer: | Christian Frei |
production: | Christian Frei Filmproduktion GmbH, SRF - Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, SRG SSR, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), ARTE France |
distributor: | Praesens Film AG |