Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Fans of Richard Linklater’s Rotoscoped dream diary, Waking Life, will be in for a field day...

Földes’s matter-of-fact approach to storytelling balances the tendency towards quirkiness in the material.

Regardless of whether this new Murakami adaptation (...) comes to be considered the best, I think it might actually capture the elusive essence of Murakami more than any other...

...succeeds as both a tribute to a living legend and a reminder that nothing is ever quite as unfilmable as it seems.

...a refreshing take on a popular author’s oeuvre. It’s also ambitious in its own right, especially as it arrives on the heels of the aforementioned Murakami adaptations that have received substantial acclaim.

...while Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman may not give audiences the conventional ending that they expect, that's not its purpose. That these catatonic characters – Katagiri, Komura, and Kyoko – find a life beyond these particular stories is.