Dreams, Washed Out

While most movies follow cliche to direct the story to a very specific audience, Dreams doesn't. While the Lai-Fu (a great Rosario Minardi) appears as the leading role, in fact Momo Yi Ching Lee uses him as a mirror for the women he tries to conquer. While Mei-Li likes danger and perhaps dangerous men she express bravery as she travels the world against all odds and finds ways to keep her curiosity intact, she doesn't surrender easily. My favorite scene is when she rejects having sex because it seems like a routine: tenderness then the bed. Even when she surrenders and finally makes love to Lai-Fu she is there but she is watching, as to ask herself: "is this what I really want? As the others reviewers point out the tempo, the mix of flash back and the present gives the movie an additional internal tempo. Momo Yi Ching Lee is someone to follow ....

A beautifully crafted dreamscape, full of shadows, shades, angles, and colors. This is what cinema is for, to tell heartbreaking stories with twists and turns, and to present something we haven't seen before. This film is truly unique in this sense. Thank you.

I don't know if the title gives justice to the story, this is the only point puzzling me while watching this film. While the Chinese MEI-LI seems to be looking for directions, I am not sure she has dreams, the English girl doesn't reveal any The dreamer is LAIFU, and the title probably refers to his lost dreams only. And this is what makes the story so interesting. How hard it is when you're middle age to find a new life. The camera work is very interesting and I loved the animated paintings Waiting for the next film ....

Love an passion in southern Italy. I painter and 2 travellers meet. I liked the ways the director used time, mixing present and past .... I found the animated section quite interesting and the music. The director looks at Italy with an interesting eye .... I wait to see her films to come

A stunning film. The almost mask-like personae of the various odalisques, whose impassivity contrast so starkly with the worn and worried man through whose dreams they drift, is arresting. A very compelling film, disturbing, at times, and unnerving, and full of magical moments and a sense of mystery that makes film the stuff of dreams, good and bad, that it is.