Sweet Dreams

Sweet Dreams

1981 · 100 min · IT · 7.1 (105 votes)
Dir. Nanni Moretti · Starring Nanni Moretti, Nicola Di Pinto, Laura Morante, Alessandro Haber, Remo Remotti, Piera Degli Esposti · Music Franco Piersanti
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Michele is a young filmmaker frustrated by the lack of understanding his work receives and at odds with the film industry, especially a colleague making a musical on the '68 student protests. As he struggles to complete his own film about Freud's mother, Michele's insecurity and creative block manifest in a series of unsettling nightmares. Nanni Moretti's self-inquiry into cinema, political ennui, and men's relationships with their mothers.

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A deeply personal, wryly observational dive into the anxieties of creation. It feels like eavesdropping on a brilliant, neurotic filmmaker’s internal monologue, wrestling with art, politics, and the ghosts of his past. A thoughtful, sometimes uncomfortable, but always engaging experience.

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