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Dream's Ashes (2005)
Not a mainstream film, which is nice!
This is low budget, be ready for that, it has a feel of a TV film and not really a cinema one. I imagine this is a first film? maybe made with lottery funding? That said, I enjoyed it. If you want explosions, naked people and cheesy jokes then you are probably going to be disappointed if you watch this. Anyone who likes smooth Hollywood actors with white teeth and salon hair is going to be turned off by this. This kind of film is not what audiences are used to these days and does not represent the Cinema mainstream. If you are sensitive to bad language and drug use then you are not going to like this. If you are very religious you might not want to watch this. However, if you are bored with Hollywood and you want to see alternative films, you might connect with this. The directing is actually remarkable, it reminded me a lot of Danny Boyle's first films. Dream's Ashes is not particularly easy to watch during the opening scenes but it all makes sense in the end. Some of the characters were iffy but the cinematography and film structure is intelligently realised. I can see why Dream's Ashes has received critical acclaim if not commercial success? It is a filmmakers film perhaps?