Sweet Dreams
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EXCLUSIVE TO GOLDEN AGE IN SYDNEY
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Overview
Unforgiving satire meets lavish aesthetics in a game of cat and mouse in Ena Sendijarević’s audacious tale of the demise of European Colonialism. In the waning days of Indonesia's colonial era, Dutch sugar plantation owner Jan (Hans Dagelet) drops dead one night and his wife Agathe (Renée Soutendijk) forces her estranged son Cornelis (Florian Myjer) and his heavily pregnant wife Josefien (Lisa Zweerman), to travel from Europe and take over the family business. While Cornelis works to quell a worker’s uprising with progressive ideals, his father's will puts the concubine Siti (Hayati Azis) at the forefront of the family estate bringing everyone’s true colours to light.
Winner – Pardo for Best Performance
“Gorgeously shot, masterfully composed... its stylised storytelling never ceasing to captivate”
“Magnificently composed, eerily satirical ... a gorgeous, sardonic portrait of colonial decline”
“Delightful and snappy... Sendijarević bridges past and present by fleshing out cruel, silenced histories through satire and formalism”
Why You Should See This Film
The Netherlands’ entry for the 2024 Academy Awards and winner of the Silver Hugo in Chicago for Best New Director, Sweet Dreams is a brilliantly conceived, sumptuously saturated and gleeful black comedy about the slow death of colonialism, its historic horrors, destructive legacy and the absurdities of power. Drawing inspiration from Juraj Herz’s The Cremator, Ena Sendijarević (Take Me Somewhere Nice) playfully approaches the colonial period drama by distorting and hyper-stylising it into something she herself dubbed a “horrific fairy tale”.
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