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This film won the highest award from one of the most prestigious European film festivals! “Dreams” is the winner of the Berlinale gold bear and this film has just arrived in our cinemas. Not to be missed!
What is it talking about?
Johanne falls in love for the first time in her life, her teacher. She relates her emotions in a notebook. When her mother and grandmother read her words, they are first shocked by their intimate content but quickly saw literary potential. While they wonder, between pride and jealousy, on the opportunity to publish the text, Johanne is struggling between the reality and the romantic of her history …
The strength of cinema is to manage to connect to our own memories, our own emotions. Maybe you will feel it in one way or another by discovering dreams, from the Oslo trilogy, 3 films that will be successively released in July, until July 16 inclusive.
This film talks about the feeling of love loneliness, and summons the memory of the first love at first sight. What do we feel when you are almost chemically attracted to a person for the first time? Palpitations, dizziness, feeling of lack … What are the physical signs?
“The love shock may seem an irrepressible force”
In his intention note, the director and screenwriter Dag Johan Hauager explains: “A first love is confusing, because mental desire and physical desire are not necessarily deployed at the same rate. Even if the romantic shock may seem an irrepressible force, Johanne is not necessarily physically capable of absorbing such intense emotions. Consequently, the gap between mental conception and physical experience seems traumatic.“”
The film also questions the possibility of the non -reciprocal crush, or experienced in secret. How do you internalize this? How to live with it? And how do you express it or not? Here heroin chooses to write her story, and that becomes a matter of twists and turns.
“We all have a story in us”
“”This first love also arouses the desire of adults who witness it, the mother and the grandmother. When they discover Johanne’s writings on her first young woman emotions, they are led to reconsider their past choices in matters of sex and love. The three women each have their own experiences and opinions vis-à-vis desire, freedom, emancipation and responsibility, but these are not frozen and sometimes contradict themselves“Develops the director in his intention note.
“We all have a story in us”: the film poses this subject via one of its dialogues. Everyone through their experiences can draw from their experience and tell a story. This is shown by the holding of this diary and reactions.
It should be noted that dreams was rewarded by the highest distinction of the Berlin 2025 festival, by the jury chaired by Todd Haynes. The rest of the trilogy is released on July 9 (love) and July 16 (sex). Note that these are three distinct stories, which can be seen without specific order.
