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DVD ~ Jessica Alba
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  • Actors: Jessica Alba, Brenda Blethyn, Hugh Dancy, Bob Hoskins, Christopher Ling Lee Ian
  • Directors: Guy Jenkin
  • Writers: Guy Jenkin
  • Producers: Chandran Rutnam, Charles Wang, Denise O'Donoghue, Frank Hildebrand, Jimmy Mulville
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Entertainment in Video
  • DVD Release Date: 29 Mar 2004
  • Run Time: 105 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00009PAAI
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 16,589 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Jessica Alba plays beautiful young and sultry Selima--the so-called SLEEPING DICTIONARY--who is forced to teach the art of sex in colonial Sarawak. Young, handsome British graduate John Truscott (BLACK HAWK DOWN's Hugh Dancy) is her pupil. Inevitably they become real lovers but must deny their forbidden relationship within their local communities or go on the run. Bob Hoskins and Brenda Blethyn also star in this erotic drama.

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28 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars great!, 4 Jun 2004
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This movie is set in Sarawak in the 30's, and being from around this area, i can see how close to the truth it is! Although Alba is of a hispanic mix, she plays the character of an Iban girl very well, including the accent! Dancy is also..*ahem* yummy and really knows how to play the naive Englishman! I recomend this movie to all who enjoy love stories like this. Definately a ladies movie!
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17 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Sleeping Dictionary review, 25 Feb 2004
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This review is from: The Sleeping Dictionary [DVD] [2002] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
This is a beautiful film. Full of passion. I just had to keep watching it over and over again. Music is great too - very provokative. Well worth watching. Not many features on the dvd though, but the film definately makes up for it!
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14 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Ethnic is beautiful provided we appreciate it with love, 25 Oct 2006
By Jacques COULARDEAU "A soul doctor, so to say" (OLLIERGUES France) - See all my reviews
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The English will go on harping on their colonial past for quite many decades still. That past is for them a source of guilt and they cannot erase it or even alleviate it enough to accept it as past and no longer that pregnant with meaning. In this case we are in Sarawak. A young British officer is provided with a native woman who is supposed to teach him the local language in bed. But this is absolutely secret and even denied, even among people who actually know. The young officer of course is supposed to take advantage of the situation then marry a good English girl to abide by his national duty. And that's it. The film of course takes the case in which the young officer falls in love with the girl. Rejection, fake accusations, everything will be used to force the English officer to do his duty, and to get the native girl and other natives out of the way. And yet the film moves forward onto a rather sentimentalese ending that avoids the tragic force it could have had. It also avoids really discovering the native surrounding culture that remains anecdotal, exotic and rather simplified in feelings. Apart from that it is a rewriting of Romeo and Juliet but with the happy ending of an escape into the wilderness. Furthermore, the film points out the real negative dimension of this colonialism : to force a foreign culture, a foreign language and even a foreign life style onto people who should have been able to righteously keep their language, their culture and their life style and evolve from what could appear as a primitive civilization to a more advanced state but on their own logic and dynamic. No one has the right to force any people to adopt a mode of thinking and a life style that does not come from their own heritage and tradition.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible
Probably diverting for Jessica Alba fans - she wears tribal outfits and whatnot. But otherwise, do not bother. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Unexpected excellence
Although I already had a high opinion of Jessica Alba (on the basis of Dark Angel), this film made me revise it upwards quite a bit. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Frequent gazer

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