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pandakuma

6May13

poetic, theatrical, and ambitious. this film somewhat similar to jodorowsky's a but in a very eerie silent way. bravo!

K A t

22Feb13

this movie really captured the desultory and unpredictable, yet enchanting, nature that dreams have

Christina Scavuzzo

14Feb13

nothing quite as potent as a vignette. like a poison dart

Beatrice

8Feb13

" Some say life is hard, but that is just talk. It is good to be alive, it is exciting! "

Carlos Eduardo Carvalho

2Jan13

There is just nothing equal to this movie!

AKFilmFan

5Nov12

While some segments are weaker than others and drag a bit, the overall film is a great piece in Kurosawa's canon and very captivating.

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We disobey the rules and should ask forgiveness. We destroy the things that create beauty in our lives. We chase greatness but fail to open our minds to the beauty around. We lead a struggle against sister winter and her friends. We create our end out of hubris. Only after a life lived with nature is death a celebration.

nayna

5Jun12

i love the personal feel of the whole film. about how it seems to be a recollection of an obscure narrator's memory or even our own. the imagery is a character in itself <3

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Aurora

22May12

I want to dream with Vincent Van Gogh too. And be inside of his Starry Night.

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nowhere_fast

1Jan13

I wonder if he have ACTUALLY had this dream. It seems so good to be true.

lucasyoshida

13Feb12

That's a new definition of dreams.

TFCHooligan69

26Jan12

Beautiful and delightful. Certainly more than deserving of a quality DVD release.

Maoolina Fajrini

26Jan12

delightful fantasy

Ursulino

19Jan12

One of those films you think: "How can people live without ever watching it?"

Evnad

23Dec11

One of the best films of the 1990s!

davefilkins

18Dec11

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.

IndyLIVE

13Dec11

I just watched this film a second time and was particularly struck by the Crows sequence. This is a beautiful film all through but that one stood out to me. Scorsese's performance as Van Gogh, the visuals and use of music, it's tone... it was perfect.

MBmn

10Dec11

Apocalyptic dandy!

apexa

1Dec11

Honestly the vibrant usage of color in Kurosawa's later films are not emphasized enough, since they are some of the most visually beautiful I've ever seen with this film being no exception. Uneven yet the last dream more than makes up for the slightly deficient dreams.

Felix Piñeiro

31Aug11

What a way to go out.

Francisco R.

19Jun11

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

15Jun11

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.

rogelio velasco

28May11

wonderful

zondabez

10Apr11

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

Gabriel Zani

27Mar11

delightful

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.