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TFCHooligan69
26Jan12
Beautiful and delightful. Certainly more than deserving of a quality DVD release.
davefilkins
19Dec11
Three of my favorite artists - Van Gogh, Chopin, and Kurosawa - all at once?! It's almost too much to handle. Easily my favorite of his films, as I am a big sucker for whimsy and fantasy. Kurosawa brings out my inner-child while he challenges my adult understanding of the world in a way only he can. Wonderful collaboration with former apprentice Ishiro Honda, "Dreams" is a beautiful capstone to an amazing career.
Francisco R.
20Jun11
Ultimately the message of this film is no different than the one in Ran. Kurosawa is clearly outraged at the first signs of modern society and uses his lavish imagery to highlight the contrast between his personal ideas of harmony (the "ideal present") and chaos (our present). All of these ideas finely subdued under the guise of "dreams" in one of the most subtle films of his career. I liked it a lot.
VENIMOS LOS JODIMOS Y NOS FUIMOS
16Jun11
De no haber filmado la muy estimable "Rapsodia en agosto" y la totalmente desechable "Madadayo", esta espectacular cinta, el antepenultimo film de Akira Kurosawa, hubiese sido el vehiculo ideal para cerrar con broche de oro su notable trayectoria. Onirica reflexión en primerisima persona (Kurosawa utiza a 4 actores distintos para representarse a si mismo durante la infancia, la madurez y la vejez) acerca del mundo, la guerra, la estupidez humana y la relación del hombre con su entorno. Impresionante en el aspecto visual, con un destacable balance entre la ensoñadora belleza de algunos de los segmentos y las aterradoramente pesadillescas atmosferas de otros. Puede no ser una pelicula perfecta, ya que es posible que resulte, a veces, un tanto molesto, obvio ó redundante el llamamiento a una ecologia sana por parte del director (una de las grandes obsesiones de toda la vida del maestro japonés) durante la practica totalidad de los segmentos que componen el film (logradisimos algunos, otros no tanto). No obstante, resulta una obra fundamental de la última etapa en el discurso cinematografico del gran cineasta. Destaca la rapida participación de Martin Scorsese como una versión Kabuki de Vincent Van Gogh.
Jonathan De La Rosa
5Jun11
Some truly wonderful moments throughout, with others that are just sort of eyebrow-raising, and not in a good way.
zondabez
11Apr11
Na época, o Kurosawa foi criticado por alguns, afinal "Sonhos" não tinha nada a ver com sua obra 'épica' mais conhecida no ocidente, além de abusar dos efeitos especiais made in USA. Vendo hoje, o filme oscila entre o otimismo da natureza e da infância - mesmo que cheios de crueldade - e o pessimismo ao apontar um futuro atômico: agora sopra em nossas faces...Estranhamente atual. Destaque para direção de arte
Nathan Deming
23Mar11
Since this is an episodic film, there are definitely highs and lows, sections that really moved me and others that felt overly didactic and simplistic in content and "message". The nuclear scenes, I think, are easily the worst parts of the film, in need of some editing and suffering from dated special effects - still, in them are details that are pure Kurosawa, like the use of the violent sea as a background.
Linda Saroeun
21Mar11
There is a powerful episode in Akira Kurosawa's Dreams that is eerily reminiscent of Japan's plight today. The film in general is mind-blowing and pertinent. This film made me seriously reconsider film. Beautiful. Effective. Nothing I can say can do it justice. See it if you haven't.
Charolastra
12Sep10
I've only seen the short with the boy and the 'dolls' that become peach trees and I know I MUST see the rest.
StellaWasaDiver
31Aug10
We need to pay more attention to the scene with the old guy at the water mill and take his words to heart and mind.
sagar mehta
27Aug10
"What's important is clean air and clean water." No matter what your views, you can't argue with that.
Mohammad
9Aug10
it's a painting full of colors. dreams are the product of sensitivity, a reflection of realities around us with some exaggeration. but in akira kurosawa dreams. dream seems more real then reality. consist of 8 dreams mostly antiwar and concerning nature. the best among them which i liked were Tunnel, Crows and the village of water mills.
Myrian Santanna Freeman
16May10
Years ago, during a workshop at the American School, Campinas, SP, Brazil, I made a selfportrait inspired by the movie "DREAMS", by Akira Kurosawa, which picture I use as my profile pic in facebook. I would love to watch that movie again ! I deeply respect AKIRA's ART !!! Myrian Santanna Freeman