Fever Dream

Name: Fever Dream
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Released: October 6, 2021
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Cristina Banegas, Dolores Fonzi, Emilio Vodanovich, Germán Palacios, Guillermina Sorribes Liotta

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Netflix | Release Date: October 6, 2021 | R

Starring: Cristina Banegas, Dolores Fonzi, Emilio Vodanovich, Germán Palacios, Guillermina Sorribes Liotta, Guillermo Pfening, Jolene Andersen, Macarena Barros Montero, Marcelo Michinaux, María Valverde

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Streams on Netflix beginning October 13, 2021.

Summary: A young woman lies dying far from home. A boy sits beside her. She is not his mother. He is not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, an invisible threat, and the power and desperation of family. Based on the internationally critically acclaimed novel by Samanta Schweblin.

Director: Claudia Llosa

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 93 min

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Nicolas Rapold

Oct 14, 2021

Lllosa’s sensually shot film takes the story of a mother facing strange danger and casts a spell that feels like being dropped into the character’s mind. Read full review

Liam Lacey

Oct 8, 2021

In the wonderfully weird and atmospheric Fever Dream, Peruvian director Claudia Llosa (The Milk of Sorrow) explores a mother’s guilt and fear in a fable of physical and supernatural contamination. Read full review

Alonso Duralde

Oct 7, 2021

Fever Dream delivers its jolts with a whisper and not a scream, and its enigmatic final shot vibrates with a deep sense of dread, one that won’t leave after the lights come up. Read full review

The Guardian Leslie Felperin

Oct 7, 2021

The whole thing is a bit bonkers but very beautiful too. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Sep 23, 2021

Adapted from Samanta Schweblin’s 2014 novel of the same name, Claudia Llosa’s faintly delirious “Fever Dream” is a head-trip of a thriller that’s true enough to its title from the moment it starts; it’s a cold shiver of a film that doesn’t unfold so much as it sweats out, the most effective scenes febrile with maternal panic so intense that you can feel the movie hovering between life and death — allure and repulsion. Read full review

Wendy Ide

Oct 13, 2021

The film’s actual pay off – the truth exhumed from this tainted earth – is ultimately not quite as satisfying as the picture’s elegantly constructed mood. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Oct 7, 2021

The movie’s tedious overuse of voice-over cripples it. Read full review

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bertobellamy

Oct 14, 2021

This is a very strange film. Haven't read the novel which is based on, but from what I have discovered here, a lot of people praise the adaptation.

The plot is hard to describe, but I'll do my best: a mother and her daughter spend their vacation in a small town. There, a woman befriendsThis is a very strange film. Haven't read the novel which is based on, but from what I have discovered here, a lot of people praise the adaptation.

The plot is hard to describe, but I'll do my best: a mother and her daughter spend their vacation in a small town. There, a woman befriends them, but she has a burden on her shoulders: she claims her son is not hers anymore. The drama unfolds, and the plot slowly becomes a dreamy thriller with horror overtones — courtesy of the creepiest kid ever. Although the acting is very good — Dolores Fonzi and María Valverde are convincing as the two leads —, the story didn't get me involved at all. Claudia Llosa and Samantha Schweblin — the novel's writer — try to cover a lot of themes, including spiritism, motherhood, and ecological disaster, and I found very little connection between all of them.

What I found very resonating is the sense of contamination, physical and spiritual. What a mother has to do to maintain their children clean in every way? The plot shows us two ways, each one with its unique consequences.

As its name suggests, 'Fever Dream' feels like a dream. Its layers develop very smoothly, transitioning between narration, the present, and some flashback sequences. Photography is key here to give the film its dreamlike look.

This is definitely not for everyone, and even if I can't say I really enjoyed it, I appreciate the effort to make an unconventional film that mixes genres in some unexpected ways.… Expand

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