{"id":588615,"date":"2023-08-25T23:47:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T20:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-sweet-dreams-review-gorgeous-sardonic-portrait-of-colonial-decline\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T23:47:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T20:47:28","slug":"watch-sweet-dreams-review-gorgeous-sardonic-portrait-of-colonial-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-sweet-dreams-review-gorgeous-sardonic-portrait-of-colonial-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Sweet Dreams&#8217; Review: Gorgeous, Sardonic Portrait of Colonial Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a21eeae279d0\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a21eeae279d0\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-sweet-dreams-review-gorgeous-sardonic-portrait-of-colonial-decline\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Sweet_Dreams_Review_Gorgeous_Sardonic_Portrait_of_Colonial_Decline%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Sweet Dreams&#8217; Review: Gorgeous, Sardonic Portrait of Colonial Decline&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-sweet-dreams-review-gorgeous-sardonic-portrait-of-colonial-decline\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Sweet_Dreams_Review_Gorgeous_Sardonic_Portrait_of_Colonial_Decline%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Sweet Dreams&#8217; Review: Gorgeous, Sardonic Portrait of Colonial Decline&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Sweet_Dreams_Review_Gorgeous_Sardonic_Portrait_of_Colonial_Decline%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Sweet Dreams&#8217; Review: Gorgeous, Sardonic Portrait of Colonial Decline&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Sweet_Dreams_Review_Gorgeous_Sardonic_Portrait_of_Colonial_Decline%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Sweet Dreams&#8217; Review: Gorgeous, Sardonic Portrait of Colonial Decline&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It takes place on a sugar plantation, but Ena Sendijarevi\u0107\u2019s magnificently composed, eerily satirical \u201cSweet Dreams\u201d has something more like acid flowing through its veins. Acid \u2014 or maybe formaldehyde, given the embalmed pallor of the dysfunctional Dutch colonial family whose values are so elegantly dissected within it. In only her second feature, after the Rotterdam-awarded \u201cTake Me Somewhere Nice,\u201d the Bosnian-Dutch filmmaker has established herself as a formidable talent with an eye for absurdity in Academy ratio, and a feel for the manicured, placid surfaces that contain rot and rebellion just as corsetry cinches in flesh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It is 1900, and this little corner of the Dutch East Indies is verdant, damp jungle terrain. The air is thick with biting insects \u2014 Vincent Sinceretti\u2019s extravagantly rich sound design is so multilayered that you can differentiate the crickets from the gnats from the omnipresent, whining mosquitoes. But part of the wilderness has been tamed \u2014 or more accurately, despoiled \u2014 to cultivate sugar cane, and a gloomy, opulent mansion has been built for the owners of the nearby refinery. Agathe (Locarno Best Performance-winner Ren\u00e9e Soutendijk), wife of plantation owner Jan (Hans Dagelet) moves through its ebony-panelled rooms like an imperious ghost. In high-necked, bone-colored gowns that seem old-fashioned even for the time, she\u2019s proudly uninvolved in the family business except insofar as it supplies the sugar she spoons copiously into her tea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Most of the time, her only companion is Siti (a stealthy, graceful Hayati Azis) the Indonesian housekeeper whose sense of self-preservation, as well as the fact that Jan is the father of her young son Karel (Rio Den Haas), gives rise to a watchful pragmatism with regard to her Dutch employer-exploiters. In the course of Sendijarevi\u0107\u2019s cunning screenplay, and in response to the constant amorous attentions of Reza (Muhammad Khan), the most firebrand of the plantation\u2019s strike-leading local workers, Siti\u2019s complicated, enigmatic psychology gradually becomes the film\u2019s focus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    While his wife molders at home, Jan runs the business and goes on tiger-hunting expeditions with Karel, a brown-skinned boy with a white-boy\u2019s name and a little emperor\u2019s sense of entitlement. He is a perfect emblem of a cruelty beyond the obvious violence and theft that colonists can visit on the colonized. So turned inside-out by his father\u2019s doting attentions, when Jan harshly humiliates one of his Indonesian servants, the little boy laughs in glee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Then, one evening, after visiting a resigned Siti for one of his regular acts of rape, Jan keels over in his marital bedroom, and the bell he reaches for to call for help is coolly moved out of his reach by Agathe (a gesture that tells you all you need to know about their relationship). Suddenly widowed, Agathe summons her son Cornelius (Florian Myjer) from the Netherlands with his pregnant wife Josefien (Lisa Zweerman), so that he can take over the sugar factory. But when they arrive, they discover that Jan has disinherited them all in favor of Karel, the half-brother Cornelius wasn\u2019t aware he had. Quickly the veneer of civilized rationality crumbles as the family plots to keep their wealth, with all of it tending inevitably toward ironic tragedy, including one spectacularly poetic suicide, which would be the centerpiece of any other film but that Sendijarevi\u0107 has the confidence to treat as an anticlimactic aside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach to this torrid tale, set in sweltering climes, is icily detached. Collaborating with DP Emo Weemhoff, who also shot her debut, the director has developed a striking visual style, using formalist, pictorialist framing and symmetry to suggest the desperate asymmetries of colonial power, in a manner that recalls Lucrecia Martel\u2019s \u201cZama\u201d or more recently, Felipe G\u00e1lvez Haberle\u2019s \u201cThe Settlers.\u201d And like in those films, production and costume design (here by Myrte Beltman and Bernadette Corstens respectively) play key narrative roles \u2014 the imagery is minimalist, so what is included takes on heightened symbolic importance, from a fine china tea-set to a lace collar to an unsuitable shoe sinking into the tropical ooze.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Even Evalotte Oosterop\u2019s hair and make-up tells its own story. Skin is important here, not just its color but its texture as Josephine, for example, goes from elegant sophisticate to sweaty, sunburned, frizzy virago increasingly swollen with pregnancy and angry mosquito bites. It parallels the idea that the occupiers are being assailed not just by the indigenous population, but by the very environment they hold in such contempt. The trees, the ground, the very air seems to hate them, but like all hate, it cuts both ways. So while the divisively dreamlike ending does have cathartic comeuppance value, it also contains fear for the future \u2014 our present \u2014 which will be inherited by this sly, dark, story\u2019s only real survivor: a child born of two worlds, belonging to neither, who has learned nothing but the most brutal lessons from both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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