dreamlike
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The Oscars’ best picture field now routinely includes two international movies, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s dreamlike meditation on mortality and human connection feels like a sure bet to make the cut.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
She believed her craft, a gift from the Almighty, emerged from her conversations with God and lifelong dreamlike visions of Genesis, Revelation and the Great Flood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Selznick deplored Hitchcock’s “goddamn jigsaw cutting,” the dreamlike, jagged images that create his signature subjectivity, but Webb didn’t mind it at all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Having already lived a dreamlike existence in France, this was starting to feel surreal.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
“It was luck I had in Osskil, not strength,” Ged replied, and he shivered again as he thought of the dreamlike deathly cold of the Court of the Terrenon.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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