movie review - Slumberland
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Kokubunji, 2022.11.26
My daughter and I watched the original story about a young girl whose father disappears at sea. Leaving the lighthouse where they lived, she joins her uncle in a grey urban life (in a grey urban apartment). While sleeping discovers and enters a dream world and meets someone there she believes can help her reunite with her father. Things in the dreamworld are not easy, nor do they make any sense. But through determination she and her new friend are going to do all the crazy dream/nightmare stuff they must.
We enjoyed it. I particularly liked the humor and intelligence that the lead (adult) brought to his role.
Recommended.