Ewa chce spak screened in Retrospective: ‘Dream Women’, Berlin Film Festival 2006

The film stars Barbara Lass-Kwiatkowska (Roman Polanski’s first wife). Before the film she was an actress with practically no experience; afterwards she rose to stardom and became for many a kind of Polish Brigitte Bardot…

Eva Wants to Sleep was hailed as a ‘ferocious comedy’ partly for the swipes it manages to take at juvenile delinquency and the incompetence of the authorities in handling the youth problem. It combines good light farce with serious reflection. But it had its share of production problems… the artistic director… demanded that the film be stopped because it was 'disgusting'…
– Frank Bren, World Cinema 1: Poland

As the title of this Polish seriocomedy indicates, all Eva (Barbara Kwiatowska) wants is a good night’s sleep. Newly arrived in a medium-sized city, farm girl Eva shows up too early to set up residence in her school dormitory. With nary a penny to her name, she wanders the streets of the city in the dark of night, hoping to find temporary sleeping quarters. In the course of her ramblings, she meets all manner of eccentric characters, and briefly runs up against provincial bureaucracy when the local constabulary assumes that she’s a prostitute. Ewa Chce Spac proved to be a critical and audience favourite at film festivals from Czechoslovakia to San Francisco.
– Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide