Synopsis
On the night of the strangest wedding in cinema history, a grotesque gang boss hires a stonecold killer to bring him the finger of a fading, drug-addicted jazz legend.
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Cast
- Stephen McHattieJohnny Deadeyes/ Trumpet Player
- Lisa HouleLisa
- Henry RollinsHercules
- Juliette LewisCountess
- Astrid RoosSugar
- Tómas LemarquisVampire
- Hana Sofia LopesColero
- Guillame KerbuschFegelein
- Stéphane BissotVera
- Julian NestWino
Recommendations
- 90
Film Threat
If you can handle a movie with a jam-packed ridiculous narrative that doesn’t entirely solve itself, then you should definitely watch Dreamland. - 80
The New York Times
Strange, challenging and boundlessly confident, this tripped-out noir from the Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald (best known for his 2009 horror movie, “Pontypool”) is part lucid dream, part drugged-out nightmare. - 63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Midnight meets madness in a surrealist exercise in existentialism and deft satire that will unsettle the average viewer while exciting those with freakier tastes. - 58
The Film Stage
Instead of sinking in, I found myself yearning for the classics it has either been influenced by or is borrowing heavily from. If this were a more academic exercise it should have come with an extensive works cited page. - 50
The A.V. Club
In the end, Dreamland never bothers to decide whether it’s trying to be an elegiac, philosophical head trip or an over-the-top action thriller. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Wildly episodic in structure and violent in the extreme, Dreamland doesn't fully succeed in sustaining its outlandish conceits. The pacing also drags significantly despite its brief running time, lapsing into a talkiness that provides too much opportunity to pick apart its absurdities. - 40
Variety
For all its salaciousness and scenery-chewing, it’s the dullness of Dreamland that provides further proof that dreams tend to be of fascination mainly — perhaps only — to the dreamer. - 25
New York Post
If Canadian director Bruce McDonald’s dreams are anything like the disgusting underworld we see in his new movie Dreamland, get the man a doctor.
