Dreams

Name: Dreams
Genre: Drama
Released: February 27, 2026
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 61

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Greenwich Entertainment | Release Date: February 27, 2026 | Not Rated

Summary: Fernando, a young ballet dancer from Mexico, dreams of international fame and life in the US. Believing that his lover Jennifer (Jessica Chastain), a socialite and philanthropist, will support him, he leaves everything behind and narrowly escapes death while crossing the border. His arrival, however, disrupts Jennifer’s carefully curatedFernando, a young ballet dancer from Mexico, dreams of international fame and life in the US. Believing that his lover Jennifer (Jessica Chastain), a socialite and philanthropist, will support him, he leaves everything behind and narrowly escapes death while crossing the border. His arrival, however, disrupts Jennifer’s carefully curated world. She will do anything to protect their future together – and the life she has built for herself. [Berlin]… Expand

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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Liz Braun

Feb 26, 2026

This is pared-down storytelling that leaves you to draw your own conclusions, but nobody’s dreams are coming true here. Filmmaker Franco seems to assume his viewers will be paying attention, so Dreams is a typically understated affair, just slightly chilly in its detachment and stripped down in action and in dialogue. Money talks, though. Read full review

IndieWire Ryan Lattanzio

Feb 24, 2026

The film’s quietly disturbing power lies in how Franco packages his U.S.-Mexico border metaphor — with rich philanthropist Jennifer (Jessica Chastain) and her young ballerina lover Fernando (Isaac Hernández, in a striking newcomer performance) standing in for each — into an addictive and destructive love story as sharply wrought as the movie’s grander political concerns. Read full review

Jonathan Romney

Mar 5, 2026

A story which might seem the stuff of high melodrama is given a very different charge by Franco’s characteristic rigour – an uninflected cleanness and clarity in Yves Cape’s cinematography, and a minimum of narrative frills, driving the narrative towards a conclusion that is one of this director’s starkest yet. Read full review

The Independent Geoffrey Macnab

Mar 3, 2026

Franco provides a platform for his two leads, Jessica Chastain and Isaac Hernández, to give blisteringly intense performances. But the film would surely have benefitted from a little more nuance and delicacy. Read full review

Ben Croll

Mar 5, 2026

Without much by way of variance, the film spins on and spins out, jumping from austere interiors in Mexico City to San Francisco and back again, putting forward a cogent political read that does little to flatter those looking for anything more. Read full review

Jacob Oller

Feb 25, 2026

The abusive push-pull between America and Mexico, the conflict between the exotic fantasy of a Latin lover and its xenophobic underbelly, crashes into two people too ill-defined to function as anything more than symbols. Read full review

Diego Semerene

Feb 19, 2025

The film exposes the incontestable American art of getting more with blunt obviousness. Read full review

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