Though Christopher Munch’s “The Sleepy Time Gal” is not exactly a genre film, it is a melodrama—a vision of everyday people facing the tragic conflicts of the heroes of history and legend, tnyfrontrow writes.
In “The Sleepy Time Gal,” the characters’ backstory is no mere filling-in of motives or explanation of behavior; it’s the embodiment of history in memory.Save this story
The film is a period piece with a double movement: it’s set mostly in the early nineteen-eighties, but the onscreen action is pulled relentlessly back toward its characters’ past, starting with the title, which was the on-air nickname of a late-night d.j. in Daytona, Florida, in the mid-nineteen-fifties. Now, in the early eighties, that former d.j., Frances , the long-divorced mother of two grown sons, is diagnosed with cancer.
The two protagonists’ stories, for all their apparently rigid determinism, turn out to be unusually supple frames for Munch’s fine-grained, richly nuanced observations of his characters’ subtle, emotionally impulsive behavior. He delineates the fierce bond between Frances and Bob with tender acuity, from the kiss that they share upon reuniting and Frances’s quick friendship with Betty to Bob’s awkward and unwelcome efforts to rekindle the sexual relationship.
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