Review of In Dreams Online
b*** In Dreams playing NOW!! ***/b brbra href=”http://usefulinfoonline.com/membersonly/13?mn=11235″img src=”" alt=”Review of In Dreams Online” border=”0″/abrbrbrThis is a great movie with Annette Bening, Katie Sagona, Aidan Quinn, Robert Downey Jr., Paul Guilfoyle (II)brbrBasically it’s about:brAnyone who has seen and loved Neil Jordan’s IThe Company of Wolves/I should feel right at home in his off-beat psychological thriller IIn Dreams/I. A sexy, very adult take on “Little Red Riding Hood,” IWolves/I unreeled as a series of surreal “fairy tales” interwoven within the heated dreams of a young girl verging on womanhood. IWolves/I’ patron saints were Freud and Jung (as sifted through Jordan’s wickedly fertile imagination), and the duo are very much aboard for IIn Dreams/I as well. Here’s a movie that takes place entirely in dreamtime, where the dark, violent fantasies of Claire Cooper (Annette Bening)–wife, mother, and illustrator of children’s books–play out unpoliced by superego, conscience, or society. On the face of it, Claire’s a clairvoyant whose mind becomes more and more possessed by child-killer Vivian Thompson (Robert Downey Jr.). Cops and shrinks refuse to take her seriously until she loses her own daughter and much, much more. Tapping into weird images of her soulmate’s childhood, when he was abused by a hateful mother in a house now submerged in a nearby reservoir, Claire comes closer and closer to her gender-shifting bad boy (and his latest victim). From start to finish, IIn Dreams/I dwells in hyperreality. Whether leeched of or drenched in color, slipping eerily through an underwater world, rushing madly toward catastrophe–every hallucinatory shot is saturated with menace. It’s the kind of potent, unresolved menace that haunts your waking day after a particularly unsettling nightmare. Watch this gorgeous film as therapeutic (?) theater inside Claire’s mind, where she and her murderous doppelganger act out a terrible Oedipal drama driven by sex and jealousy. Bening and Downey deliver superb, risky performances, and Darius Khondji’s cinematography, with almost every frame punctuated by blood-reds, is sensuously dreamlike. IIn Dreams/I is one of those great, flawed films that reaches for more than it ultimately achieves. But what a welcome change from the dullness and shallowness of the formulaic sure things that dominate movie screens as the 20th century draws to a close. I–Kathleen Murphy/I brbrWhile I’ve watched In Dreams a lot, it seems to never get old. I guess it’s one of my favorites. If you haven’t seen it, or just haven’t watched it in a while - why not watch it now? Of course you can watch it later - for free - check the image above to see how. It’s the best way I’ve foundbrbr
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