1981 · comedy · drama
Sweet Dreams
Directed by Nanni Moretti1h 40m1981
Michele is a young filmmaker frustrated by the lack of understanding his work receives and at odds with the film industry, especially a colleague making a musical on the '68 student protests. As he struggles to complete his own film about Freud's mother, Michele's insecurity and creative block manifest in a series of unsettling nightmares. Nanni Moretti's self-inquiry into cinema, political ennui, and men's relationships with their mothers.
Our read: Sweet Dreams (1981) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, steady, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- inventive
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