Birbiglia wears his incisive wit on his sleeve while portraying a cinematic surrogate. Based on the successful one-man show, Sleepwalk With Me engages in the kind of passionate and personal storytelling that transfigures intimate anguish into comic art.
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Recommended Stories. Atlanta Black Star. Giants Wire. It is also compulsory if you like intelligent, fairly clean, comedy with something to say. Sleepwalk With Me is Mike Birbiglia s autobiographical show about his sleeping disorder.
Through that story and its comic moments like coming in second in the Dustbuster Olympics Birbiglia also talks about bladder cancer, his parents, his first love, his early days as a comic, his unability to commit, his belief there is a jackal out to kill him in his sleep, and his becoming an adult. MP3 Album at Amazon. Birbiglia weaves an excellent and poignantly funny story. Highly personal, painfully honest and often rather touching, neither of them were quite what I would ever have expected from a stand-up comedy show that I really liked.
I would like to think that I am not the kind of person who overrates stuff because it personally resonates with me and that I don't view such films or shows through…. Everything else in the film is pretty great however. Review by Robby. Although you can definitely tell this is a directorial debut, as it's edited and shot very amateurishly, Sleepwalk with Me is still an engaging, harrowing start for Mike Birbiglia as a director. I'm done. No more schlubby men with women hotter and smarter than they are.
Time to move on from the poisonous American indie archetype. Yet, it's filtered through a comedic lens, thanks to great direction, writing, and acting from Mike Birbiglia. Witty and insightful, with some genuinely funny moments.
A bit reminiscent of Woody Allen's works. The final 10 minutes are amazing. The Bottom Line: While it doesn't reach the heights of the likes of Annie Hall and High Fidelity , Sleepwalk with Me is still a very impressive directorial debut by a talented man who seems to have a promising future ahead of him. Part of A Film A Day. Technically, Sleepwalk With Me isn't a groundbreaker in any way.
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