Marianne Dreams

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Adam: As assisted by some incredibly accommodating dustbin-men, really quite decent of them, frankly. 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 ] The perfect gift for girls aged 8+, this well-loved classic will delight a new generation of readers of the Faber Children's Classics list. About This Edition ISBN: Ali: That was my favourite bit of the film. That was the bit where I got on board with the film properly. When she opens the door and on the stairs there’s just this pair of plaster legs. It’s great.

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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? Like many who have commented here, I recall this from my early childhood, and it defines 'cult' - something you watch once, and will remember for the rest of your days. I've never seen it other than when it was originally shown on itv, at 4:40 on Wednesdays I think. In Paperhouse, they escape the threat of the father and make it to the lighthouse, but then they feel that the lighthouse is only a kind of resting place, not the final destination. Where was I going with this? Anomalous Art: Marianne (unintentionally at first). The more she learns about her drawn world, the more easily she learns to manipulate it. Ren: The not-father is creeping down the stairs and Mark’s urging Anna to destroy just the part of the drawing with her father in it. But she’s asleep, so her sleeping self is reaching for this drawing, and she has a candle next to her bed, and she manages to set it on fire.

The book contains examples of the following tropes:

Storr, Catherine (1970). "Fear and evil in children's books". Children's Literature in Education. 1: 22–40. doi: 10.1007/BF01140654. S2CID 143753098. Ali: She’s like ‘What’s that?’ ’It’s a radio’ ‘It’s too big!’ That’s not what you say when your child has drawn a radio: ‘it’s unrecognisably large’. Paperhouse was initially released on VHS format not long following its theatrical exhibition in the United Kingdom. In the United States, Vestron Video handled releasing it on both VHS and Laserdisc, both in the 1:33.1 aspect ratio. In the book she gets ill, and as a consequence of that she finds the pencil and starts drawing, but the worst part of her illness is before that, and it doesn’t feel like the reason she’s having these dreams is because she’s ill. Whereas in the film it definitely seems to be the case. Ali: I think in the book, you never really know for sure, but the dream world is definitely treated as being real in terms of the narrative. Whereas in the film, it seemed to make more sense, at least, if you read it as being fever dreams. And the illness is much more linked to the dreams.

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Yes, the book ends slightly differently from the TV show, in that the dreams do not cease for Marianne once she has recovered following her illness; it is implied that they will continue, possibly for the rest of her life. Ali: And in the book the existence of the house is definitely caused by the pencil, specifically. It’s tied to this particular pencil that she finds in her grandmother’s work box. There’s no suggestion of that in the film at all, she just draws stuff.Adam: I think it gets across that feeling of being ill as a child. I had a lot of chest and ear infections as a young kid, so I definitely remember long days and weeks spent in bed and feeling stuffy and frustrated but also out of it and woozy. Ren: She decides to make a girl to be friends with because she’s angry with Mark. But she draws her to totally the wrong scale, so she’s worried for a while that she’s created a friendly giant of a girl.

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Ali: I think at that point it’s fairly clear that they are, well, there’s this sound of stony stamping. Marianne peered out, more cautiously than ever. The people stood in strangely stiff, unyielding positions. She looked fixedly at one to see him shift his position, give some indication that he was alive. But he stayed absolutely still. So did the others. Adam: So in the book it’s a pretty strained relationship for most of the book, by the end they’re friends, but —Ali: Yeah, which is obviously the most horrifying thing that anyone’s ever invented. It had something of that about it.

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Ali: But then he’s actually… I don’t know. It definitely felt like from that point onwards, the film didn’t seem to be positioning the real father as being threatening? Which I was slightly surprised by. Adam: But this is what we were saying about the dream logic of the film, if you want to be charitable. I’d want to call it dream logic. Adam: Yeah, the walls look really like they’ve got mildewed, and rotten and slimy and stinky. So what was your other (half-singing) Texture of the Week?Catherine Storr's later novel Marianne and Mark was a sequel to Marianne Dreams. [2] Film, television and theatrical adaptations [ edit ]