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Sweet Dreams
Bérénice Bejo stars in Marco Bellocchio’s stylish drama. A troubled journalist's exploration of his past starts to cathartically change his present.
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Overview
Bérénice Bejo stars Marco Bellocchio’s stylish, affecting adaptation of the contemporary Italian novel by Massimo Gramellini. Sensitively depicting Massimo, a journalist whose whole life has been emotionally blighted by the mysterious death of his mother when he was a young boy, Sweet Dreams gradually shows how his exploration of the past starts to cathartically change his present.
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