Movie Review

Waking Life (2001)

EW's GRADE
A

Details Limited Release: Oct 19, 2001; Rated: R; Length: 99 Minutes; Genre: Animation; With: Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke and Wiley Wiggins; Distributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures

This exhilarating animated reverie from Slacker director Richard Linklater and animator Bob Sabiston is an amazing thing -- a work of cinematic art in which form and structure pursue the logic-defying (parallel) subjects of dreaming and moviegoing. Dazed and Confused player Wiley Wiggins stars as a young man who floats in a dream state, depicted in a ribbon of rainbow-colored computer-enhanced images. The result is a thrill, a trip to a fabulous new frontier. If you blink, you'll miss something amazing.

Originally posted Nov 02, 2001 Published in issue #623 Nov 02, 2001 Order article reprints
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