Attention, a new film with Nicolas Cage arrives in theaters. You don't trust me? We understand you! And yet... This production A24 produced byKristoffer Borgli(already behind the recentSick of Myself) and produced by Ari Aster largely keeps his promises (and much more!). Immediate boarding to the land of dreams...
The science of dreams
Paul Matthews (Nicolas Cage) simmers in a biologist career that leads him nowhere. His family life was lost, his classes inspired little enthusiasm for his students, a former colleague stole his ideas from him in a brilliant article and the book he dreamed of publishing did not write alone. Yet, overnight, a mysterious event upsets his life: everyone seems to dream of him. The teacher is suddenly propelled on the front of the stage, with many advantages but even more disadvantages...
Concept film with Nicolas Cage in the lead, here is a subgenre in its own right. It must be said that the nephew ofFrancis Ford Coppola, after chaining the masterpieces (a series of movies with his tone, the awesomeArizona JuniorCultivationSailor and Lula...) has stuck his career in a long rut of inter-sideral nanars. And despite a few bursts (likePigandMandy), it appears more and more to embody or disseminate its own condition on the screen (A talent in solid gold), and this is resolutely again the case inDream Scenario.
Dreams and nightmares
The man propelled into the head of a myriad of unknowns, the horrors of fame, the inevitable connivances with the world of advertising, the man on the decline...Dream ScenarioNot selected as lead actor Nicolas Cage by chance. Yet, the feature film does not have the laziness to content itself with this meta postulate, quite the contrary. Provided with a splendid photograph,Dream Scenariouses the 16 mm grain to magnify its plans, like a grand opening offeringin media resa dive into the heart of a dream as poetic as it is terrifying.
AndDream ScenarioThis will constantly move forward, budding from there with its dreamlike projections that are inserted as mini-short films within the film. Lost in the worlds of dream brought by subliminal images or fantastic slow slides, which drop away as the film moves a little more the spectator in the middle of a grandiose imbroglio as suffocating as visually splendid. And the unhealthy tension that emanates from the second half of the feature film brings him closer to the awesomeBeautiful is afraiddDream Scenario. The buckle is closed...
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