View: In Dreams (1999)
In Dreams opens with the flooding of a small town and wonderful music composed by Elliot Goldenthal. The opening titles blink by, scratched in a font approximating a child's handwriting, superposed onto the first of the underwater sequences that likely inspired the film's working title, 'Blue Vision.'
We then meet the protagonist, Claire Cooper, as she is helping her daughter Rebecca to memorise her line in her kindergarden's production of a very Disneyan Snow White. The rest of the film has nothing in common with Disney, and everything to do with Snow White, especially in the light of the fairy tale's many interpretations. The stage has been set, and onward goes In Dreams, with its dream-logic and vitality, like vein blood seen blue through thin skin, and red bloodstains or apple blossoms.
It is a very beautiful, very flawed, and very memorable nightmare. You do not need me to tell you anything more about it.
__IN DREAMS directed by Neil Jordan stars Annette Bening and is based on the novel DOLL'S EYES by Bari Wood don't bring your kids along__
Word to every other critic (Mr Ebert, This Means You): I was left puzzled by one 'detail' at the end, but I'm going to do something about it (and verify my educated guess)... *Read the book*
-this review copyright 1999 by mariane desautels- http://pages.infinit.net/amneria/7.html
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