David Connolly, Sarah Lassez, Michael T. Weiss. Videodisc release of 2007 motion picture. Special features: deleted scene; still gallery; interview with director Anthony Stagliano on The American Avant Garde, Season 4, Episode 1.
Summary:
In Anthony Stagliano's surreal puzzle film, Arthur Dichter believes that he is dying of insomnia, but the reality is much more frightening. He has lost the ability to communicate, keeping a journal to express his private thoughts with no intention of sharing it with his wife Anna. Anna knows he is in a waking nightmare where delusions and reality blend together. As his disease gives way to despair, loneliness and alienation, he and Anna hang on to their last shred of hope until the bitter end. This challenging picture riffs on personal identity, marital discord, and contemporary life, and turns narrative and chronology inside out to find the darkest corners of the human spirit.
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