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.

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.