Movie Review
The Dreamlife of Angels
by David Ng
The antithesis of The Matrix is Erick Zonca’s The Dreamlife of Angels. Feted at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and worshipped at last fall’s New York Film Festival, this movie is now playing at a theater far away from you and has no intention of getting any closer. Here is undoubtedly the most elitist film of the year. A film student’s wet dream. It bears no ideas relevant to life outside the art house. In fact, The Dreamlife of Angels has no ideas. It’s an empty aesthetic experience. It’s an exercise in cinematic masturbation that surprisingly never reaches orgasm. It leaves us exhausted, frustrated, and looking for more.