the basic details of the story are simple, though Meredith Danluck presents them in a pleasantly disorienting fashion; the movie floats from one mode to the next without any discernible reason
overall, "State Like Sleep" is a satisfying movie about grief and an unsatisfying mystery. Waterston gives her best performance to date, showing every step of her character's long emotional climb out of grief and back into the world of the living
Meredith Danluck's hypnotic drama; this consistently surprising film slinks along with melancholic dreaminess, matching the fugue state that plagues its grief-stricken protagonist
