We Put the World to Sleep
Adrian and Duru get lost in the characters they play in an apocalyptic film and embark on a secret mission to end the world for real. Second entry in Adrian Tofei and Duru Yücel's spiritual trilogy which includes Be My Cat: A Film...
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"This was a film that I was intrigued to check out at Nightmares Film Festival. It was on day three that it was shown. It was at this film festival years back that I saw co-writer/director Adrian Tofei's first film, Be My Cat: A Film for Anne. I dug what that was doing with the eeriness on the found footage angle. I've kept seeing updates for this one so I didn't want to miss it. Synopsis: Adrian (Tofei) and Duru (Duru Yücel) get lost in the characters they play in an apocalyptic film. They embark on a secret mission to end the world for real. Now where I'll start is givin..."
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Adrian Tofei's ambitious goal for We Put the World to Sleep was to combine the metaphysics of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) with the realism of The Blair Witch Project (1999), two of the movies that impressed and influenced him the most as a filmmaker. What followed was a wild odyssey not only on screen but in real life as well over the nine years of production, with numerous unforeseen obstacles - from the pandemic to financial and creative ones - during which Adrian Tofei and Duru Yücel partially lived in characters. The themes that were purely sci-fi when they began production in 2015 - such as AI and the confusion between what's real and what's not - by the time the movie was completed they became real worldwide fears.
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Adrian and Duru get lost in the characters they play in an apocalyptic film and embark on a secret mission to end the world for real. Second entry in Adrian Tofei and Duru Yücel's spiritual trilogy which includes Be My Cat: A Film...