An awkward teenage story as a girl experiences her dreaded 15th birthday party, "Girl Asleep" has a distinctly low-budget-surrealistic style that works interestingly in a short (77 minute) running time. Publicity has invoked "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Mighty Boosh" but this has a much milder and personal approach than either - there's very little ironic distance from our slightly daggy heroine and her daggier surroundings in what looks very much like a 1970s suburban world.
This does, admittedly, feel more like a long film-school short than a fully fleshed out movie - it's more of a mood piece and less led by logical incident. But there's a gentle charm here that is unusual and worth catching.
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