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Cinema is the Langage of Dreams

“Cinema doesn’t have the same power of imagination as literature even if people tend to believe the exact opposite. When I hear it said that cinema is the language of dreams, I completely disagree: in cinema you have to show things, their logic.”

• Pedro Almodovar

Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It’s a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

• Federico Fellini

Sources

• “Cinema is the language of dreams” search yields three results: a Thai film festival on a rocky beach curated by Tilda Swinton and Apichatpong Weerasethakul http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/13024/1/film-on-the-rocks-yao-noi a film festival at a montessori school in India http://www.cmsfilms.org/icff/report_3.html and a quote from Pedro Almodovar refuting the statement http://classiq.me/almodovar-on-almodovar
• http://www.forbesindia.com/printcontent/38883