Monday, 9 December 2013

A voyage into slumber

Dreams (1990)

Directed by Akira Kurosawa this film stars Akira Terao, Martin Scorsese and Chishu Ryu. We explore a number of short films inspired by Kurosawa's own dreams.

Like many films of collected shorts this film is a bit of a mixed bag with varying quality of the individual parts. Some are interesting insights and broadly sketch the different stages of life although some seem a little disconnected from the general theme. As with anything by Kurosawa there are parts which are excellently shot but Scorsese seems an odd choice to play Vincent van Gogh.


4/5

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