Sweet Dreams

Fai bei sogni
Marco Bellocchio

The latest from Marco Bellocchio is this delicate, melancholic, and deeply moving adaptation of Massimo Gramellini’s popular autobiographical novel about a middle-aged man’s struggle to come to grips with the loss of his mother when he was a child.

DIRECTOR
Marco Bellocchio
YEAR
2016
COUNTRY
Italy / France
RUNTIME
134 minutes
LANGUAGE
Italian and French with English subtitles
ORIGINAL TITLE
Fai bei sogni

The latest from Marco Bellocchio is this delicate, melancholic, and deeply moving adaptation of Massimo Gramellini’s popular autobiographical novel Sweet Dreams, Little One. Tracing a middle-aged man (Valerio Mastandrea) as he still struggles to come to grips with the sudden loss of his mother when he was nine years old, Sweet Dreams alternates between past and present, memories and dreams, effortlessly weaving together disparate elements of Massimo’s life to yield a profound, poetic study of loss and maternal love. Gracefully photographed by frequent DP Daniele Ciprì (Vincere, Dormant Beauty), this is Bellocchio at his most emotional, but his signature sense of humor and irony are as strong as ever.

Sweet Dreams
Sweet Dreams

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