Written by Aleksandra Khvaleeva
Directed by Pavel Khvaleev
Starring Polina Davydova, Evgeniy Gagarin, Sergey Topkov and Olivia Indik
Language: Poorly dubbed English (originally, Russian)
Running time: 1 hour 24 minutes that you could spend doing anything else

by Audrey Callerstrom

In his review of the original Dawn of the Dead, Roger Ebert wrote, “how can I defend this depraved trash? I do not defend it. I praise it. And it is not depraved, although some reviews have seen it that way. It is about depravity.” Sleepless Beauty (Ya ne splyu) is just plain depraved. And stupid. And senseless. It’s incompetent trash. It’s the juice that accumulates at the bottom of a dumpster. I want to find the writer (Aleksandra Khvaleeva) and director (Pavel Khvaleev) so I can throw a drink in each of their faces and storm out of a restaurant, Real Housewives style.