Nicolas Cage stars as Paul Matthews, a listless family man and tenured professor with an affinity for evolutionary biology and anxiety regarding his own anonymity. One day, he discovers he has begun to appear in other people’s dreams at an exponential rate. He becomes an overnight celebrity and is soon showered with the attention he has long been denied. But when Paul encounters a dreamer whose visions of him differ substantially from the norm, he finds himself grappling with the Faustian bargain of fame as his dream-selves start inexplicably becoming violent within their respective subconsciousnesses.
Co-produced by Ari Aster with a brilliant Cage and his iconic intensity doing work the Guardian deemed the actor’s “Nicolas Cagiest performance yet,” this dryly hilarious satire-cum-social horror affirms writer-director Kristoffer Borgli as an astute critic of influencer culture and societal groupthink, and a gifted purveyor of the absurd. See it this Friday at IU Cinema!
“Dream Scenario boasts a layered performance from Nicolas Cage, and thought-provoking themes that are well-executed throughout an imaginative film.” — Mae Abdulbaki, Screen Rant
Dream Scenario will be screened at IU Cinema on February 2 as part of the Not-Quite Midnights series.