Synopsis
Girl Asleep (2015) is an Australian coming-of-age fantasy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Rosemary Myers from a script by Matthew Whittet — who also appears in the cast, adapting his own stage production for the screen.
Greta Driscoll is days away from turning fifteen, which feels less like a milestone than a threat. Childhood is safe; everything outside it is loud and incomprehensible. When her parents organise a surprise birthday party she never asked for, Greta tumbles into a parallel world — dreamlike, slightly sinister, and thoroughly strange — where she'll have to work out who she actually is. Bethany Whitmore carries the film in the lead role, with Harrison Feldman as Elliott, the one friend who makes the real world bearable.
Myers holds the film at exactly the right emotional register — awkward, funny, and precise, without once talking down to its subject. Stream Girl Asleep on iFILM.
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