I Can't Sleep

J'ai pas sommeil
France, 1994. 110 mins. Wellspring Med.

Daiga, a spunky Lithuanian actress, drives into to town to collect on the promise of a director she slept with. He lied to her and now she must accept help from friends and relatives who set her up in a small hotel as a chambermaid. In a second plot, Theo, a Caribbean musician, takes small carpentry jobs for wealthy Parisians to support his young daughter. Theo's brother Camille has real problems. He is the wild one. Dressed in his fishnet stockings and garish makeup, Camille sings at the local gay club. He sleeps with his lover (also his doctor) in the same hotel as Daiga. Camille seems nice enough until it is discovered that he is not only a drug addict and HIV-positive, he also strangles old women to death while a partner robs their homes.

Director: Claire Denis