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Directed by
Roman Polanski
R
1972
1h 53m
Comedy
5.5
15%
48%
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During her Italian vacation, a beautiful young American tourist finds herself a guest in a coastal villa inhabited by some odd people.
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Cast of What?
Marcello Mastroianni
Alex
Sydne Rome
Nancy
Hugh Griffith
Joseph Noblart
Guido Alberti
Priest
Henning Schlüter
Catone
Gianfranco Piacentini
Tony
Christiane Barry
Dresser
Pietro Tordi
Man-Servant
Mogens von Gadow
German
Dieter Hallervorden
German
Romolo Valli
Giovanni
François Périer
Enzo
Roman Polanski
Mosquito / Director / Writer
Richard McNamara
Charlie
John Karlsen
Edward
Livio Galassi
Alvaro Vitali
Cross-Eyed Painter
Renate Langer
Naked Girl with Hat (uncredited)
Carla Mancini
Nerina Montagnani
Gérard Brach
Writer
Carlo Ponti
Producer
What? Ratings & Reviews
Oregonian
Ted Mahar
Polanski's wit has generally fared badly here. While many bizarre episodes are implied in "Dreams," nothing spectacularly raunchy, exciting or, frankly, humorous is shown.
Esquire Magazine
John Simon
Confirms me in the belief that this gifted film maker is the sad victim of his supreme lack of discipline.
Texas Monthly
Judith Crist
Polanski and his pals may have had a fine time cavorting around the villa but it's not catching on a 112 minutes of film.
TIME Magazine
Jay Cocks
Polanski inexplicably uses all the absurdist conventions that he mocked so deftly in Cul de Sac.
Creative Loafing
Matt Brunson
Stupid, clumsy, pretentious and sexist drivel from Roman Polanski -- easily the worst picture of his career.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
The girl, the villa and the performances are beautiful enough to bridge those sequences when the film, like its heroine, seems searching for explanations that will never be found.
TV Guide
This haphazard fantasy is of interest chiefly to devotees of Roman Polanski and, even more so, of Gerard Brach, his longtime screenwriting collaborator.
Examiner.com
Adam Lippe
Polanski subjects his frequently nude and always nave Alice in Wonderland to attempted rapes, dialogue so sexist and misogynistic as to play like parody, and a reliance on that old clich that women always want sex, you just have to force them into it.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I wonder how much Carlo Ponti gave Roman Polanski to make Diary of Forbidden Dreams. Ten cents would have been excessive.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
The whole thing is as delicate and insubstantial as the pink rose petals that fall when Nancy and Giovanni duet on the Mozart Piano Sonata -- and just as appealing.
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