If you loved The Center of the World, try While the Women Are Sleeping
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. While the Women Are Sleeping has roughly 5.3× fewer votes than The Center of the World — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Wayne Wang, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Center of the World, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What While the Women Are Sleeping is
Late July in a glass-walled lobby, a single split-flap clock clicking 3:17 every time the numbers flip. An exhausted novelist watches his wife disappear into sunlit rooms while strange guests check in: a woman in red shoes who never speaks, another who folds towels into origami animals. Wayne Wang folds this quiet mystery into a chamber piece ripe for late-night screenings.
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