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Dreamland (M, 101mins) Directed by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte ½ Like many other residents of Bismark, Eugene Baker (Finn Cole) thought the land was cursed. Having been lured to Texas’ giant plains by the promise of a new life, his family’s dreams had died, along with their crops. It was all too much for his father, who left Eugene and his mother Olivia (
Better Call Saul’s Kerry Condon) when the former was just five. Scrabbling to survive, they were seemingly saved when she married local lawman George Evans (Travis Fimmel). That was before the town suffered 14 dust storms in one year. Then the banks came for their farms.
Dreamland (MA) and a half
IN the mid 1930s, life in America’s west was tough from every aspect, graphically described in “The Grapes of Wrath”, John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel made into a movie that in 1941 got four Oscar nominations and two wins, one of which went to director John Ford.
In 1968, Arthur Penn’s movie about bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who made headlines until gunned down in May, 1934, by Texas Rangers Frank Hamer and Ben Gault, won six Oscars including Best Picture.
Both those precedents were running through my mind as I watched Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s fictional movie.
97 minutes, rated MA
For almost the whole history of cinema, filmmakers have been telling stories about outlaw couples â one recent example being this yearâs overlooked
Queen and Slim, which reimagined the trope for the era of Black Lives Matter.
Finn Cole in a scene from Dreamland, co-starring Margot Robbie and Travis Fimmel.
Credit:AP
Dreamland is less obviously topical. Indeed, reports indicate it was shot back in 2017 â when its director, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, was still in his mid-twenties â and has been sitting on the shelf ever since. On balance itâs isnât hard to see why, though Margot Robbie as an alluring Depression-era bank robber isnât the worst starting point for a piece of entertainment.