Set in a small lumber mill town in Oregon, The Bed You Sleep
In is an examination of a family facing a crisis - an accusation of
deep and profound impact against one of its members. Along the way a
portrait is rendered of the town, discreetly revealing its qualities,
for better and worse. While doing so in a very oblique and indirect
manner, the town and the family are surrogates for the larger community
of America and its family of citizens. Moving slowly and stealthily,
The Bed You Sleep In lays out its pieces, inviting the viewer
to think for themselves. When the accusation arrives, a tragedy ensues,
sweeping the family to the abyss.
1993 | 35mm Panavision | Color | Sound | 117 minutes
Writer, director, editor and cinematographer: Jon Jost
Producer: Jon Jost
Music: Erling Wold
With: Tom Blair, Ellen McLaughlin, Kate Sannella,
Marshall Gaddis, Thomas
Morris, Brad Shelton
Official selection: Berlin, San Francisco, and Sundance Film Festivals
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"A tragic, beautiful, and mysterious film that alternates between
all-American landscapes (many of them composed as diptychs) and an unraveling
nuclear family, this is as evocative and apocalyptic as Jost's cinema
gets"
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
"Full of haunting tableaus of the picturesque Pacific Northwest"
- Chicago Tribune
"The potentially intriguing thematic material only barely makes
up for a sense of filmmaking self-indulgence after two hours of nothing
happening. "
- Scott Renshaw, Apollo Movie Guide
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