Sweet Dreams

Ordinary People if it were Italian. A boy loses his mother, then spends decades in denial. Bellocchio's film dwells on the long fallout of grief, with Valerio Mastandrea doing the heavy lifting.

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Marco Bellocchio directed Sweet Dreams in 2016. See Marco Bellocchio's full filmography, where to start with Marco Bellocchio, or where to go after you've seen everything by Marco Bellocchio.

Sweet Dreams was released in 2016 (IT original-language production), with a runtime of 131 minutes.