Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader)

I cannot recommend this movie enough. The pinnacle of Schrader’s ‘man and his room’ stories - in my opinion better than Taxi Driver. It’s definitely a more grounded depiction of loneliness with such a sad, restrained performance from Willem Dafoe. Susan Sarandon is fantastic as well, hiding melancholy in mania. The empty life of drug use laid bare.