Adam: (still laughing) Oh, that’s brilliant. Now I’m going to try and make Bergman connections. No, I don’t really think…

Marianne Dreams: Adventures after dark - The Telegraph Marianne Dreams: Adventures after dark - The Telegraph

Adam: She knows there’s an outside. She seems to recognise that she is somewhere else, but she can’t quite remember what the other world is. But she seems to know more than Mark, but isn’t completely aware that she’s in a dream. Adam: Sure. So in the book it’s much more based around problem solving. Creating objects that Mark might like, or might help Mark in the house. Whereas in the film, she draws the house and next time we see her draw a whole plethora of objects, and there’s not much rhyme or reason. Adam: — the radio is helping the not-father, and blares out (Adam does a malevolent robotic voice) ‘They’re under the stairs! They’re under the stairs!’

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Adam: It reminded me a bit of Knightmare, that whole sequence of her trying to do something without being able to see in the real world. Adam: NHS green ice-cream. And she kind of says to herself, ‘Oh, I forgot to draw some cones’. As though a cone would make it all better. A ladder that’s not long enough. So there’s this whole strange business in the book and the film about their inability to draw a long ladder. Did you notice this, Ren? In France, the film received its first Blu-ray release from Metropolitan distribution on 2 May 2013 in a Special Edition containing the original English audio and a dubbed French audio, both in DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, and optional French subtitles. It features an aspect ratio of 1.78:1. [8] This set is now out-of-print. The film was also released on Blu-ray in Germany in a limited "Collector's Edition" via Nameless Video on 8 November 2019. [9] A standard edition Blu-ray set was released in Germany from Tiberius Films on 4 November 2022. [10] Tie-in book edition [ edit ]

Musty Books: “Marianne Dreams” by Catherine Storr (1958) Musty Books: “Marianne Dreams” by Catherine Storr (1958)

Adam: Which is what I think makes the film a very odd adaptation of the book because it’s coming from a very different perspective. Magical Land: Marianne is able to live in the fantasy world she created for herself by drawing it in a notebook. Ali: Yeah, understandably. Because also he can’t remember the real world when he’s in the dream world. Whereas Marianne, maybe can’t remember to start with? I was very pleased to find that Escape into Night has been released on DVD. This is certainly one of those programmes which I remember only vaguely but that had a very lasting impact. Like others, I could not remember what it was called so it took some searching to find. I originally found the film Paper House and watched that as Escape into Night had not at that point been released. The Paper House film though was not as dark or sinister as I remembered the TV series. Adam: Well, that was my main one, but I was also going to say the general texture of the walls of the house.

Quite a lot of it is about her frustration at not being able to get out of bed, and her being grumpy and upset about having to spend this time in bed, and how she feels about the people around her and things like that. The true nature of Mark’s presence in Marianne’s dream is left deliciously ambiguous. In their waking lives, they never meet, or even communicate – everything that Marianne knows about Mark and his deteriorating condition comes second-hand, from the anecdotes of Miss Chesterfield. So is the real-life Mark, subsumed by serious illness and increasingly unable to stay conscious, actually sharing a dream with Marianne, or is he merely her constructed interpretation of Miss Chesterfield’s stories? We never find out for certain. Furthermore, Marianne is no longer in control of the dream world because she brought The Pencil into that world and gave it to Mark. When we last see her in the dream world, she finds Mark has gone off in the helicopter having left her a note to say he did wait for her, but could only wait so long because the helicopter had been hovering around all day waiting for him.