Dreams

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Dreams

Sep 2025

1h 50m

Drama

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Johanne's intimate writings about her first love stir friction within her family, prompting her mother and grandmother to reexamine their own realities and dreams. Johanne falls in love for the first time, with her teacher. To preserve her feelings, she documents her emotions and experiences in writing. When her mother and grandmother read what she has written, they are initially shocked by its intimate content but soon see that it has literary potential. As they debate whether to publish it, Johanne navigates the gap between her romantic fantasy and reality, and all three women confront their differing views on love, sexuality, and self-discovery.

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David Katz

Sight & Sound

Nov 5

Dreams (Sex Love) is an invitation to spend time with and think alongside Haugerud’s liberated characters, and it’s a welcome one, however artificial and unlikely his framing can sometimes feel.

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

Oct 7

Sharply written, insightful and exhilaratingly unexpected, this film is one of the very best of the year so far.

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Simon Abrams

RogerEbert.com

Sep 13

2/4

‘Dreams’ winds up leading viewers to feel both mildly implicated and overwhelmingly frustrated as Johanne’s narrative gradually veers from questions about what really happened to Johanne to why we care in the first place.

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Javier Ocaña

El Pais (Spain)

Nov 21

...a work devoid of any visual capacity or cinematic language, illustrating a saccharine story, explicit to the point of exasperation...[Full review in Spanish]

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Diego Batlle

Otroscines.com

Nov 10

4/5

The story has so many facets, so many layers of meaning, so many ramifications and areas for debate that it becomes a bold essay on several of the most relevant issues in contemporary society...[Full review in Spanish]

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Michael Scoular

In Review Online

Oct 6

It stands out in the trilogy... [but] Haugerud’s tendencies of over-universalizing his scenarios, and of never finding a way out of a schematic structure for the films besides adding on more interpretive scaffolding via dialogue, are still present.

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Runa R

2d

I found this second film in the trilogy much more interesting than the first. It kept the pattern of little or no action and plenty of dialogue, and I found it more realistic in terms of social patterns. The adolescent, the grandmother and the mother all showed down-to-earth, common reactions to what happened. I believe all adolescents experience their first crushes on a teacher (male or female), and the film conveys all the pain and beauty of such an episode.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Sep 12

Success in 1 hour and 50 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dubbed and subtitled in worldwide studios!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Johanne's intimate writings about her first love stir friction within her family, prompting her mother and grandmother to reexamine their own realities and dreams. Johanne falls in love for the first time, with her teacher. To preserve her feelings, she documents her emotions and experiences in writing. When her mother and grandmother read what she has written, they are initially shocked by its intimate content but soon see that it has literary potential. As they debate whether to publish it, Johanne navigates the gap between her romantic fantasy and reality, and all three women confront their differing views on love, sexuality, and self-discovery.

Director: Dag Johan Haugerud
Producer: Yngve Sæther, Hege Hauff Hvattum
Screenwriter: Dag Johan Haugerud
Distributor: Strand Releasing
Production Co: Motlys
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Norwegian
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 12, 2025, Limited
Runtime: 1h 50m

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