Comments on: Underrated 80’s Thriller: “Mary Lambert’s Siesta” (1987)

By: Siesta - www.mindfuck-film.de

Siesta - www.mindfuck-film.de — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 05:01:26 +0000

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By: Roxy A Go Go

Roxy A Go Go — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 11:50:28 +0000

I totally agree it’s completely misunderstood and underrated. I was only a kid when I watched this, but l still recall with sentiment bits and pieces of the scenes in the light of summer and the sensual connotation behind the conversations between Claire and Augustine…Sadly fragile, but sublimely beautiful piece of work.

By: Richard Trombley

Richard Trombley — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:25:53 +0000

Thank god . . . . at least a few reviewers took the time to get it right. This film is complex enough that it takes more than one viewing, a fact that those who wrote after only one viewing made all too clear. Like “Jacob’s Ladder” and “Stay”, we are never quite sure what is going on until the film’s final moments. There are clues throughout, but they make much more sense on a second viewing. Claire’s need to go to “the city of angels”, the many angels shown throughout the film, Claire’s guardian angel (Julian Sands) and the angel of death (Alexei Sayle), the reference to Cocteau’s “Orpheus” (the walls into Purgatory), and the reference to Bosch’s “Visions of the Hereafter” (the window in their siesta room), all point to this. And the music of Miles Davis is some of the best to be found in any film.