"Overtly complying to the novel's episodic flourishes (highlights include Massimo witnessing the borderline unhealthy, love-and-hate relationship between a schoolmate and his mother, elevated by a vivacious cameo from Devos; or his close contact with an abrupt suicide, dominated by another cracking cameo from Gifuni), SWEET DREAMS dreams up nothing transgressive nor utterly transfixing, its bleakly saturated image may be accurate to represent its periods, but it is almost too bilious to watch, and the logic between Massimo's action and his imaginative abetter, Belphegor (seen in a 1965 French television miniseries "BELPHEGOR, OR THE PHANTOM OF THE LOUVRE") never comes to clarity."
read my full review on my blog: Cinema Omnivore, thanks.
read my full review on my blog: Cinema Omnivore, thanks.