Beyond dreams
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Beyond dreams |
| Original title | In dreams |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Neil Jordan |
| script |
Bruce Robinson Neil Jordan |
| production |
Charles Burke Redmond Morris Stephen Woolley |
| music |
Elliot Goldenthal song "Dream Baby" sung by Elizabeth Fraser |
| camera | Darius Khondji |
| cut | Tony Lawson |
| occupation | |
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Beyond Dreams is an American thriller from director Neil Jordan from 1999. The book was based on the novel Doll's Eyes by Bari Wood . The German theatrical release was August 12, 1999.
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Children's book author Claire Cooper has been beset by visions from a very early age . The visions always show a little boy who once lived in a village that was flooded. Now there is a lake at this point where she lives.
This boy was left behind by his parents and, when the village was flooded, was able to escape with great difficulty, but subsequently went insane. Claire doesn't know what these visions mean because she doesn't know the boy in her head. Lately the visions and dreams have grown stronger again, which gives Claire a terrible premonition.
Her husband Paul is only marginally interested in this because he is too busy with his work as a pilot . After a school performance, her daughter Rebecca disappears without a trace and Claire has a vision shortly afterwards. She sees how the very boy from her dreams, who has meanwhile grown up, kills her child. When Rebecca's body is found in the lake shortly afterwards, Claire realizes that she has seen the future.
Claire cannot withstand this emotional stress and tries to kill herself by racing into the lake with her car. However, Claire is rescued and is admitted to a hospital, where she is treated by psychologist Dr. Silverman is looked after. When she explains to him that she has a spiritual connection with her daughter's murderer, neither her husband nor Dr. Silverman nor the police officer Jack Kay, who is now investigating the murder case, their faith.
After some time in the hospital, Claire can return home, but there is still no trace of the perpetrator and there are no clues. She tries to find distraction in her work, but continues to be harassed by images from the past. She sees the boy being pulled out of the water, admitted to a clinic and being tortured further there.
However, strange things happen in the house on a sunny afternoon. The Coopers dog disappears and Claire's computer receives strange messages. Claire's nerves can't take this and she tries to kill herself again by cutting open her wrists. Her husband Paul finds her and can save her. However, it is then followed by Dr. Silverman finally admitted to the insane asylum .
In her cell she has a new vision. She sees her husband's murder . Again their descriptions are dismissed as delusions. When her husband really disappears and is later found in the same place that Claire described, Dr. Silverman and comes across little Vivian Thompson, who was cruelly abused by his parents and barely escaped death during the flood. After that, he was admitted to the institution and lived in the same room that Claire is now housed in. One day, however, he managed to escape, killing two people. In the meantime Claire has found strange inscriptions by Vivian under the wallpaper in her hospital room .
Claire now sees that attempted escape in one of her visions. On the same escape route as Vivian once did, she manages to escape from the institution by taking a security officer hostage . She knows that only she can stop Vivian. She finds the adult Vivian Thompson, her daughter's killer, in an old cider factory . In the showdown , she falls into the reservoir with the murderer and drowns. At the end of the film you can see Vivian being tormented in his cell by visions from Claire.
Reviews
- epd Film 9/99: Blood and water mix to that unclean mixture of colors, which in the end only primes an opulent showdown . Only in the final image does calm return - too late.
- film-dienst 18/1999: Psychological thriller , which comes up with many loving details, but ultimately fails due to the lack of psychologization of the main character. Overloaded thematically, the film lacks above all a convincingly developed atmospheric tension, so that ultimately only individual scenes and the exquisite camera work are convincing.
Awards
Neil Jordan was awarded the Silver Raven at the 1999 Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival .
Trivia
- The film cost $ 30 million but was unsuccessful at the box office.
- The FSK indicator on the DVD is red even though the age rating is set to 16 years.
- The film was shown in 2 cinemas in Germany and only attracted 435 visitors to the cinemas.
- The film music was composed by Elliot Goldenthal, with whom Neil Jordan already worked in an interview with a vampire . The soundtrack of the film includes the song "In Dreams" by Roy Orbison , which is played as a trailer.
- The film was released on VHS on December 16, 1999 and on DVD on January 25, 2001 .
Web links
- In Dreams in the Internet Movie Database (English)