Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

PlatinumRead Just so...so bad

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

ness978 This movie was great, starting off as Eva daydreaming about her second cousin Joseph Lees a Geologist who has been in Italy and has similar interests as her own.She meets Harry Flite a pig farmer who pursues Eva and badly wants her to be with him and Eva goes and lives with Harry and they have a very sexual relationship and seem in love. Then one day Eva's little sister and father turn up for a visit and she tells Eva that a relative is getting married and that all their cousins and second cousins are going to be there, which stirs her daydreaming to re-surface, she goes to the wedding and dances with her second cousin and when dropped back to Harry's place he trys to dance with her and have fun but she comes across as cold and harry picks upon this. After her cousin sends her some books she gets deeply interested in him further and Harry senses something is up they have a fight and he goes to watch another boxing match and some girl catches his eye,they have sex,wherever Eva was she returns and Harry is asleep on the bed and she kisses his hand and realizes the smell of cheating(other woman's sexual scent). Eva leaves and goes to her cousin where they make love a lot of times and Harry goes crazy and Eva feels bad and goes home to him only to have Harry go saw his leg off cause he can see she is aching to leave him again.her cousin turns up and she tells him to go cause she doesn't want Harry to know he is there,then she runs outside to her cousin and they share a passionate kiss.Im thinking the ending meant she had to stick by Harry because it was expected in those days even though they were not married,so she is stuck with a burden. Lusting over a cousin like that is sickening I don't care if they were second cousins or not they are still part blood related,shame on you Eva.I saw this movie very late at night and I doubt you would find it in a video store these days.

geekwoman My best friend and I sat down to watch this film, and 15 minutes in, were were sitting in disbelief that this film was even made.Most distinctly, why is Joseph Lees the object of her desires?? No backstory, no explanation as to how they came to their obsessions with one another, and it seemed so ham handedly handled as to be laughable.The story went nowhere. The characters would go from good to bad, hot to cold, flirting to obsessed in the blink of an eye with no reason. What were these people's motivations?The music was EXTREMELY overbearing, and the cut-action slow motion edits looked like a bad student film.WARNING! small spoiler ahead: as my friend and I were watching we were yelling at the screen, and when we come to the scene where Harry is passed out on the bed after his lustful romp with the trampy girl (BTW, where did *that* come from?) and Eva walks into the room, I yelled "Smell his fingers!" in my crass way, and to my utter shock and disbelief, she did. That right there ruined the entire movie for me. That was really bad. Seriously bad.

sass_brown I'll be glad to speak to the reasons why "Dreaming of Joseph Lees" only scored an average of 4...it's maddeningly vague (those with a taste for pretentious "art cinema" may mistake this for lyricism), melodramatic, murky (both in terms of plot and lighting), and contains a wholly unsympathetic cast of characters. Who is worse: the man-child who throws tantrums and even mutilates himself to keep his woman, or the woman who stays with him? This film has all the markers of a tragedy (the accident; the woman caught between duty and love; the close-ups of Morton's prettily-anguished face) except the most important one -- it fails to make us care.

zooey Sepia-toned, understated, Hardyesque - Dreaming of Joseph Lees is one of those rare, quiet films that hits with brute force. Its only serious fault is in a too-slim characterization of Harry - his desperation could and should have been a little more fleshed out. We're only given glimpses into the reasons behind his crippling dependency on Eva. Apparently lots of folks feel that Joseph Lees suffers from a similar near-transparency, but his character is what it must be - he has always been a romanticized ideal for Eva. And his fleshing out in her eyes, is present, but also patient, as it must be.Near the end of the film, Morton turns in some of the best acting I've seen in years in a scene in which her Eva finds herself just inside the front door, literally caught between Harry (further inside the house) and Joseph (just outside the door). Rarely has heartbreak ever been so beautifully rendered in a performance as it is here.It's a crying shame that this film has yet to find its audience.