Beyond Sleep (2016)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 106 minuten
Alternative title: Nooit Meer Slapen
Country:
Netherlands / Norway
Directed by: Boudewijn Koole
Stars: Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Pål Sverre Hagen and Anders Baasmo Christiansen
IMDb score:
6,0 (979)
Releasedate: 27 January 2016
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Beyond Sleep plot
Beyond Sleep is about the survival journey of the young geologist Alfred Issendorf who searches for meteorites in the swampy north of Norway. The ambitious Alfred hopes that this journey will link his name to important scientific evidence. In this way he tries to continue the work of his father, who died during his own research project. Alfred searches, stumbles and suffers in the cruel tundra of Northern Europe. He only finds redemption on the verge of madness.
Actors and actresses
Alfred
Arne
Father of Alfred
Inger Marie
Mikkelsen
Giant Woman
Qvigstad
Reviews & comments
eRCee
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- 13449 messages
- 1981 votes
I only vaguely remember the atmosphere of the book, and that feeling corresponds wonderfully with what we see in Beyond Sleep. Alfred's irritation and alienation due to the physical exertion, poor sleep and the two excruciatingly haughty blond Norwegians comes across well. The camerawork is quite subdued and there is a kind of crane shot that I found really wooden (especially if you compare it with The Revenant, but hey, the atmosphere that film wants to convey is essentially different) . My biggest criticism, however, is the sound, because I thought there was too little background noise. Wind, for example, seemed to be completely missing and therefore the conversations sometimes seemed to come too much from a studio. Otherwise a great film, but the really special thing is missing (and I also had that feeling with the book).
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mjk87 (moderator films)
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- 14596 messages
- 4552 votes
Never Sleep Again is my favorite Dutch book. Now a film adaptation seemed quite difficult to me in advance. The book mainly revolves around the psyche of Alfred Issendorf and writer Hermans spends more time in his head than outside of it. That is extremely difficult to film and Koole is unable to do so. But Koole also decides to make it a typical Dutch arthouse, with a camera close to the skin and many silent images that should have enormous expressiveness, but for me they never do. I find that rather annoying and interesting stuff. The structure in the book was also better, and not typical with such a scene at the beginning that the film returns to at the end. I'm starting to get itchy about that too.
The environments are beautiful. Hermans had to show the barren environments through words, Koole can do that by just setting up the camera, but it becomes an extremely boring whole, despite the beautiful pictures, especially around times when the sun is low. Koole does nothing else with it. We do get many images of Issendorf where many things fail, but as an outsider he becomes an annoying and stupid person, while Hermans portrayed him with a lot of compassion. The acting is correspondingly, one cannot make more of it. And the title? It was given a very nice place in the book. Not at all in this film. 1.0*.
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pocalan
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- 131 messages
- 1405 votes
The book was once recommended to me by a visitor to the library where I worked at the time. A few weeks later I told him that I loved it too. He couldn't remember recommending it to me (and perhaps even reading it). Well, I never forgot the book. 
I also had to get my head around the book. But with the film they could have shortened the first hour considerably. There you have a different audience to reach. I also barely understand Alfred's mumbling. The book has a huge advantage because of the beautiful use of language and sentences and the metaphors. I think the film seems too simple. Both substantively and visually. The environment is beautiful (and) robust. But that's about it for me. It's also strangely filmed, so it doesn't seem as oppressive to me as the book. Rather distant. Not all books are suitable for film adaptation. In my opinion this is one of those.
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