Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Cortechba Overrated

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

ness978 This movie was great, starting off as Eva daydreaming about her second cousin Joseph Lees a Geologist who has been in Italy and has similar interests as her own.She meets Harry Flite a pig farmer who pursues Eva and badly wants her to be with him and Eva goes and lives with Harry and they have a very sexual relationship and seem in love. Then one day Eva's little sister and father turn up for a visit and she tells Eva that a relative is getting married and that all their cousins and second cousins are going to be there, which stirs her daydreaming to re-surface, she goes to the wedding and dances with her second cousin and when dropped back to Harry's place he trys to dance with her and have fun but she comes across as cold and harry picks upon this. After her cousin sends her some books she gets deeply interested in him further and Harry senses something is up they have a fight and he goes to watch another boxing match and some girl catches his eye,they have sex,wherever Eva was she returns and Harry is asleep on the bed and she kisses his hand and realizes the smell of cheating(other woman's sexual scent). Eva leaves and goes to her cousin where they make love a lot of times and Harry goes crazy and Eva feels bad and goes home to him only to have Harry go saw his leg off cause he can see she is aching to leave him again.her cousin turns up and she tells him to go cause she doesn't want Harry to know he is there,then she runs outside to her cousin and they share a passionate kiss.Im thinking the ending meant she had to stick by Harry because it was expected in those days even though they were not married,so she is stuck with a burden. Lusting over a cousin like that is sickening I don't care if they were second cousins or not they are still part blood related,shame on you Eva.I saw this movie very late at night and I doubt you would find it in a video store these days.

HarlowMGM DREAMING OF Joseph LEES is one of the most romantic pictures of recent years but it is seriously marred by a pretentious streak, improbable character actions, and a artsy ambiguous ending that is a cheat. Samantha Morton gives an excellent performance but Eva is such an incredibly plain heroine that it's odd why two quite handsome (one of them, Rupert, extraordinarily handsome) men would be obsessed with this little church mouse.Set in 1958 rural England, Eva has long mooned over a distant cousin, Joseph Lees, who unlike the rest of her relatives has gone off to see the world and is interested in "books and things". Eva is pursued by a local pig farmer Harry who longs to be a prizefighter and longs to bed Eva. Having not hear anything about Joseph in years, Eva decides to slide into a relationship with the persistent Harry, only to have Joseph suddenly reappear and for the dark side of Harry's obsession to be revealed.I found the screenwriter's sympathy with Harry downright offensive given his truly dangerous personality. When Eva, upset with his barking dogs, tells him to "get rid of them", he does - he shoots them!! Later he goes and self-mutilates himself ( thinking perhaps Eva's emotional tie to Joseph was sympathy based?) - this is some scary sh*t and yet the screenwriter treats it all like, poor thing he really loves her and its tearing him apart. I realize this is set in the late 1950's (though you would never know it from some of the clothes and hairstyles) but even then women had more options that just feeling obligated for life to the person who deflowered them. That everybody was so sympathetic to Harry for all the emotional BS he put Eva through was just bizarre to me. The ending leaves it up in the air what will be Eva's final decision - Harry or Joseph - it's an artsy twist that the producers should have demanded be rewritten. There is a slight hint she will go with Joseph (her sister's smile) but it's certainly not clear what her final decision will be. Had the producers brought in someone to rewrite the script they may have had themselves a major hit instead of what it is, a obscure little film not seen by many and one of the very few from recent years that has never been released on DVD.The performances are excellent though - the young actress playing the little sister is really good and the ever dashing Rupert Graves proves once again he is one of the best actors in films today. But let's face it - if a woman has to choose between Rupert Graves or somebody else, unless that woman is mentally unbalanced herself, "somebody else" hasn't got a snowball's chance in hell.

geekwoman My best friend and I sat down to watch this film, and 15 minutes in, were were sitting in disbelief that this film was even made.Most distinctly, why is Joseph Lees the object of her desires?? No backstory, no explanation as to how they came to their obsessions with one another, and it seemed so ham handedly handled as to be laughable.The story went nowhere. The characters would go from good to bad, hot to cold, flirting to obsessed in the blink of an eye with no reason. What were these people's motivations?The music was EXTREMELY overbearing, and the cut-action slow motion edits looked like a bad student film.WARNING! small spoiler ahead: as my friend and I were watching we were yelling at the screen, and when we come to the scene where Harry is passed out on the bed after his lustful romp with the trampy girl (BTW, where did *that* come from?) and Eva walks into the room, I yelled "Smell his fingers!" in my crass way, and to my utter shock and disbelief, she did. That right there ruined the entire movie for me. That was really bad. Seriously bad.

Lee-107 Film-making is all about Waiting they say. So is Love. This film epitomizes the seemingly unending Wait for the Right Man - that one man who signifies all that is beautiful and pure and noble of mind and body - someone worth living and fighting for. For Eva this Wait has even more poignance because she knows who that man is...that he's not just a figment of her imagination, but a living breathing man named Joseph Lees - someone whom she knows can broaden the horizons of her restricted world and love her for who she is and not for what he derives from her(which is how Harry loves her).The case against Harry is not predetermined. It is established gradually. There are some touching moments between Eva and him when he's actually likeable. The scene in which he takes Eva out of the crowded boxing room is one such incident. Harry is at once boyish and likeable and selfish and despicable. Lee Ross has brought out these shades in his character brilliantly. As much as it is Eva's story, it is also the story of Joseph Lees. And it is Rupert Graves, in the title role, who makes this film for what it is. He is a Dream(don't mean to pun!) in the film! I had only seen him in Louis Malle's 'Damage' which he did 7 years before 'Dreaming...', a film in which he looked much younger, though he was completely overshadowed by the oh-so-powerful Jeremy Irons who played his father. For the audience to feel any empathy whatsoever for Eva for dreaming of Joseph Lees for so long, the actor had to be someone for whom the audience would feel the same. And Rupert Graves is absolutely divine in the role! It is because of him that the audience too gets involved in Eva's quest for Joseph Lees. In any film of this sort, deriving empathy for the characters is everything. It is to the credit of Eric Styles, the director that he has managed that. From the beginning you know that these two people, Eva and Joseph *have to* be together. You laud Janie, Eva's little sister(wonderfully played by Lauren Richardson) in her efforts to bring them together. You frown at Eva's father who unknowingly acts as an obstacle between them. Samantha Morton is excellent as Eva. It must be tough to act in a film where you have to cry so much and make it look real. She manages that. Her convulsive fit of tears in the end just before she rejoins Joseph is very well rendered by Morton. She has rendered the character with due grace and sensitivity. Cinematography and music are two of the other wonders of this film. The former has added to the atmospheric quality of the film, capturing well the wild undulating beauty of the Isle of Man where the film was shot. The music has added beautiful lyrical cadences to the emotions in the film. Not surprisingly it is composed by a master-composer like Zbigniew Preisner whose music for Kieslowski's 'Blue' and other films is equally beautiful. Worth dreaming....!!