Unmade Beds

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Unmade Beds

Released Sep 2, 2009

1h 32m

Comedy

Drama

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Vera and Axl live in the same warehouse and never meet until fate intercedes.

Critics Consensus

At times messy and disheveled, Unmade Beds beautifully captures the joys and aches of avoiding adulthood.

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Andrea Gronvall

Chicago Reader

Director Alexis Dos Santos stressed improvisation, and his scenes have a lingering emotional rawness, but the handheld camera work left me feeling as woozy as the characters appear to be.

Feb 25, 2010

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Anna Smith

Empire Magazine

Light and entertaining, if a little clunky at times.

Rated: 3/5

Dec 11, 2009

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

An easy-going, garrulous, likable piece.

Rated: 3/5

Dec 11, 2009

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David Harris

Spectrum Culture

A subtle, gentle movie about emotional holes and what we do to fill them.

Rated: 3.5/5

Oct 11, 2019

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

If it weren't for the kick-ass pop soundtrack, with tunes like Hot Monkey, I would have tuned out long before the last reel.

Rated: C+

Jan 27, 2011

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Film4 Staff

Film4

Stay away action fans, this is not a film for you. But if you identify with the lifestyles of these characters, you might just find this small dreamlike film speaks to you.

Rated: 3/5

Dec 11, 2009

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jaime h

This is one of the greatest, rawest, purest indies ever made. We need more films from innovators like Alexis Dos Santos. This film should be a test of who you keep as friends... if they like it, they can stay, if they love it, they get it and can obviously stay, but if they don't get it or think it's shite, get rid of those loser fuckers

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

One of the best movies ever made. Where it might be rough around the edges production-wise, it is engrossing dramatically speaking and the characters are so real and pure and wonderful. I will watch anything the director does and I hope he makes many more films. The music, the scene, A+++++

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/16/23

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Simple, real and beautiful.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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Audience Member

It's got some good music, is loosely scripted and shot in a fragmentary style with some clever bits of observation. Overall it reminds those of us of a certain age that it wasn't that great being young, confused, having lots of energetic sex and getting off one's face. Good acting from the leads generates sympathy for the inevitable confusion of being newly fledged into an adult world.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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Audience Member

INDIE GEN INDIE GEM INDIE GEM. I fucking loved it. It was colorful, fun, cute, sexy, a bit melancholy at times, not saying that's a bad thing, and finally it was absolutely perfect. Perfect can't even describe it. Ah, I fucking loved it.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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thought its was quite a good film, well directed, quite quirky, i loved the scene when they were dacning around junk to "we are not the same" by the good shoes.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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Déborah François

Vera

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Synopsis

Vera and Axl live in the same warehouse and never meet until fate intercedes.

Director: Alexis Dos Santos
Producer: Peter Ettedgui, Soledad Gatti-Pascual
Screenwriter: Alexis Dos Santos, Marianela Maldonado
Distributor: IFC Films
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 2, 2009, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 10, 2017
Runtime: 1h 32m