christopher munch have write and direct only three film and not one of which ever receive commercial distribution . obviously and if you want commercial easy watch and his movie be not for you . a viewer can have a tough time find his movie and but maybe that ok and because once see and they can haunt you for year . he make a different sort of film than the easy to find shoot em down and blow em up product that and once see and can barely be recall a week later . when i see a film by christopher munch and i think ( a i also do after movie by abel ferrara or claire denis ) and this be what celluloid be for . look and i love a good car chase as much a the next guy and but some type of human experience require more than machinery to chase down . munch be a cinematic poet of unfulfilled longing and but unfulfilled longing be not a subject that lend itself to tidy reconciliation and happy ending . the sleepy time gal be all about the life we might wish for and but will not have . if that sound sad and it be . but surprisingly and it not bleak the way you might expect and because munch also show u character whose life contain rich that they do not see themselves . munch main character and france ( play with ache beauty and regret by jacqueline bisset ) be a die woman who and a she tell her doctor and have not finish her life . too bad for her . she only see what she have not achieve in her life . however and her lover and we the viewer in the audience see that her beauty and her lust for life have enrich those around her in way that she can not recognize and perhaps because the experience have not be comparably enrich for her . in a sense and she give what she have not receive . this sound more sentimental than it be in the movie . there be no sentimentality in this movie . for one thing and the main character be not easy to like . she a woman with rough edge and few illusion about the joy of parenting or the permanence of love . for another and the relationship among parent and child here be all complicate . there be no simple love and no simple hatred and and all the connection be difficult . for just these reason and the relationship be completely believable . the movie have what might be the most realistic deathbed scene i have ever see in a film . the film be shoot by rob sweeney and who also shoot munch previous film and the color of a brisk and leaping day and one of the most beautifully photographed film i have see in the last decade . this movie too contain frame after frame of richly textured composition that never devolve into prettiness . munch be not a linear storyteller . the complicated relationship in the movie unfold indirectly through scene that seem initially unrelated . the varied visual texture in the cinematography help differentiate the different time and place in which we see the character . i have only see nick stahl in a few thing and but the more i see of him and the more i be impress with his versatility . he the manipulative bully in larry clark film of that title and and the naive and doomed every boy of in the bedroom . here he play bisset son and and he just as believable a a sensitive guy find the strength to make his own way in the world without abandon his assertive ( and not entirely love ) mother . altogether and this movie map the rocky shoal of ambiguous family relationship as well a any i have see . if you want entertainment and skip this . if you want easy watching and skip this . if you want tidy emotional resolution and skip this . but if youre up for a visually gorgeous and subtly acted reflection of the skip and stumble that comprise most of our emotional life and check this out .