I DON'T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE no stars

People sleep quite a lot in Ming-Liang Tsai's "I Don't Want to Sleep Alone", be it alone or together and if you hear snoring in the cinema you might find it's not only on the screen that people are sleeping. Few films lasting two hours are about so little or move so slowly. The plot, if there is one, could be written on the back of a very small envelope and for all that happens on the screen, the movie could quite easily be cut by about 75% without losing anything.

Fundamentally, it's about one man nursing another back to health while elsewhere two women look after a young man in a coma. No-one says very much though it would appear that these two strands do come together at the end. It's certainly well photographed and there's definitely a palpably hot-house atmosphere on display but it's also impossible to feel anything for any of the characters and you may feel your time might have been better spent at home taking a well-deserved nap.