FILM
DREAM SCENARIO
NICOLAS CAGE COULD DREAM ABOUT A PEACH FOR HOURS
★★★★
OUT NOW / CERT 15 / 102 MINS
DIRECTOR Kristoffer Borgli
CAST Nicolas Cage, Julianne Nicholson, Michael Cera, Tim Meadows, Dylan Gelula, Dylan Baker, Kate Berlant
PLOT Paul Matthews (Cage) gains fame when he begins to appear in people’s dreams. But soon the dreams, and Paul’s life, become nightmares.
“A FILM IS not the telling of a dream,” the French auteur Jean Cocteau once wrote, “but a dream in which we all participate together.” Filmmakers have long seen the cinematic potential of dreams (see also: The Wizard Of Oz, Inception, the dream sequence in Dumb And Dumber where Jim Carrey lights his own fart) — but Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli chooses to take Cocteau’s famous quote literally in Dream Scenario, an enjoyably absurd comedy in which dreams shift mysteriously to become a collective experience.