Girl Asleep

Girl Asleep

2015 · 77 min · EN · 6.1 (134 votes)
Dir. Rosemary Myers · Starring Bethany Whitmore, Harrison Feldman, Amber McMahon, Matthew Whittet, Eamon Farren, Tilda Cobham-Hervey · Music Harry Covill

“Fifteen is going to turn a corner. It has to.”

FantasyComedyDrama

The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen, she can’t bear to leave her childhood; it contains all the things that give her comfort in an incomprehensible new world. She floats in a bubble of loserdom with her only friend, Elliott, until her parents throw her a surprise fifteenth birthday party and she’s flung into a parallel place—a world that’s weirdly erotic, a little bit violent, and thoroughly ludicrous. Only there can she find herself.

VIBE

A disorienting, dreamlike journey through adolescent anxiety. It feels like a hazy memory of a strange party, where the mundane and the surreal collide. A unique, off-kilter exploration of growing up.

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