Like a Dream that Vanishes
Like a Dream that Vanishes

Like a Dream that Vanishes

4.7

0 hr 39 min

1999-10-01

3

"Like a Dream That Vanishes" continues Sternberg’s work in film both thematically and formally: the ephemerality of life echoed in the temporal nature of film, as the stuff of life echoed on the energy, life-force in rhythmic light pulses (Your life is like a candle burning). Imageless emulsion is inter-cut with brief shots of natural elements and mise-en-scene of the stages of human life: a little boy runs and falls; teens hang out together at night smoking; sun shines through tree branches; men pace, waiting; flashes of lightning; an elderly man speaks philosophically about miracles.

Documentary

Trailers

Characters

Similar Movies

Wealth of a Nation

1964-01-01

Max Ernst: Journey into the Subconscious

1964-01-01

The Beginner's Guide to Spinning in Loops

2022-07-29

Devil's Circuit

1988-07-26

Path of Cessation

1974-01-01

Rummaging for Pasts

2001-11-23

December Hide-and-Go-Seek

1993-07-29

Desconocida Leyendo En Un Autobús

2025-02-18

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

1927-09-23

Motion Pictures are Your Best Entertainment

2025-01-20

Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

2019-11-24

Animal Eye

2025-02-28

Discovering Buñuel

2012-01-01

Rene Magritte: Man in the Hat

2014-05-04

Frank Zappa – Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily

2014-10-05

Two Times in One Space

1985-03-01

Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

1997-04-09

You Speak of Flins

1969-10-20

Guadalcanal Requiem

1977-01-01

Conversation with Two Lovers

2025-03-07