dreams (1955)
Dreams can be epic journeys, can span what feels like lifetimes and multitudes, we can find what we truly desired or a detour in life that brings us to a place we’ve never been. The constant with dreams is that we always wake up, or in most cases at least, and find ourselves right where we started, right in the place we last left reality and with no change in our circumstance. This is as true in Bergman’s Dreams, our women here leave their familiar surroundings only to return to it, changed by their experience, yet right back where they started. When they enter their dreams they meet an old lover, an old man longing to feel the interest of someone, their careers and their responsibilities take a holiday.