Sweet Dreams

About Sweet Dreams

Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother.

Marco Bellocchio's Sweet Dreams is a 2016 drama film. Released in November 2016, it runs 131 minutes.

Its themes are childhood trauma, traumatic childhood, childhood memory, and loss of parent.

Valerio Mastandrea appears as Massimo, Bérénice Bejo as Elisa, Guido Caprino as Père de Massimo, and Emmanuelle Devos as Madre di Enrico. The screenplay is by Edoardo Albinati and Marco Bellocchio.

Peeping Tom, The Prince of Tides, and Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer make useful companions to Sweet Dreams. TMDB voters put it at 6.5 out of 10 across 224 votes.