Alan J. Jacobs What is the right thing to do? Follow your fantasy mate while destroying one who loves you, or staying behind and sacrificing yourself so that the one who loves you will stay alive? Many people have had to make such a choice: the person of your dreams appears, and there is a real possibility that you can establish a relationship with that person. However, you've established a relationship with another, an uneven relationship, where he loves you more than you love him. But he is a good person, and devoted. Handsome, a good lover. But the person of your dreams (in this case, Joseph Lees) is also real, and could take you to a place where your life can be miraculous and sublime. What to do?I enjoyed this film tremendously, and easily related to the characters and situations.

gzerna Luminous acting, plus painterly cinematography, plus expert musical scoring, equals heavenly cinema.Woody Allen cast Samantha Morton as the mute co-star to Sean Penn in `Sweet and Low Down' (remember the girl who never said a word, but spoke volumes?). After seeing her in this film, I don't think she even needed to audition.This film is especially for those who know that movies which are described by some as `about nothing' are usually the ones that are really about everything-everything that really matters. An intense and unforgettable journey for anyone with an emotional life.

raisishini I have recently seen the movie on television, and after the first time, I found myself compelled to rent the movie, so I did. I find the characters Joseph and Eva to be utterly captivating. The cinematography of the film perfectly captured their passion, their desire, their unextinguishable love. Lee Ross perfectly played the character Harry Flite in regards to capturing the character's desperation, and maddening obsession. Ross captured the character so perfectly that it made me despise the character. With all this said and done, I found the ending to be one of two things, thus bringing me to an undecisive state. Other than that, the movie is a must see for the melancholic ambiance of the film is undeniable.

sass_brown I'll be glad to speak to the reasons why "Dreaming of Joseph Lees" only scored an average of 4...it's maddeningly vague (those with a taste for pretentious "art cinema" may mistake this for lyricism), melodramatic, murky (both in terms of plot and lighting), and contains a wholly unsympathetic cast of characters. Who is worse: the man-child who throws tantrums and even mutilates himself to keep his woman, or the woman who stays with him? This film has all the markers of a tragedy (the accident; the woman caught between duty and love; the close-ups of Morton's prettily-anguished face) except the most important one -- it fails to make us care.