Siesta

Claire "On a Dare" wakes up by an airport runway wearing a red dress. She's dirty and bruised. She has no idea where she is or how she got there, or even what day it is, but she does remember... Full review

This film is one of my favorites, and I am often let down by other's opinions of it; the most common criticisms I hear are, pacing is too slow, story is too hard to follow, and not enough action.Check the... Full review

If you've seen Siesta and are puzzled, then read this spoilerWhen she wakes up by the stream, you hear a dog barking and then she gets into the taxi.Watching Siesta really made all my senses and my brain working at... Full review

Mary Lambert's "Siesta" offers plenty of wonderful visuals and a nice amount of sensual atmosphere.A woman in a red dress lies in an airport field,supposedly dead.She wakes.There's blood on her dress,but it doesn't seem to be hers.She can't remember the... Full review

This film summarizes the essence of a journey called life. In its frames there is a thrill that keeps me on my toes. Every time I watch it I become emerged in the world of a seductress by the name... Full review

Siesta is an unabashed art film with a central theme of obsession, a supernatural twist, gorgeous Spanish locations and terrific performances by an ensemble cast of some of the most talented and interesting actors around in the late nineteen eighties.... Full review

This movie is not for everyone. That being said, I loved it. It is surreal, complex, and asks more questions than it answers. It evokes rather than exposes, and creates a vivid imaginary world using only good acting, editing, and... Full review

I watched this movie again recently after not seeing it for about 10 years, and it's held up very well. I remember after seeing it the first time, that I kept saying to myself, "What?", but upon seeing it a... Full review

This is an odd movie. In places there doesn't seem to be much of a plot, and many of the characters are....well, odd. Essentially, the story is about Ellen Barkin's character, Claire, attempting to get to an airport in Spain... Full review

Certainly one of the stranger films of the 1980s. Starting out from a familiar premise - a woman who lost her memory - this film does not do much to pick up the pieces and reconstruct what happened, but keeps... Full review

It's a toss-up as to who gets the worst of it, though Sands and Byrne probably have the most atrocious lines. The movie is like some tony theme party with actors from all over -- Jodie Foster, Isabella Rossellini, Julian Sands, Martin Sheen, Grace Jones, Gabriel Byrne -- dropping by to play dress-up. ... Full Review

Up until this point the movie is actually quite good, probably because it seems to know what it is doing. It's the kind of bad film that remains quite watchable until fairly late in the game, when you realize that you've made more of an effort to figure it out than the director has. ... Full Review

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