'I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming' Review: Trans Drama on Ukraine War
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- "I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming" is a German-Ukrainian production described by the reviewer as an "affecting trans relationship drama" that occupies a space in Ukraine war storytelling largely dominated by nonfiction filmmaking.
- The film addresses Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine and is credited with "bold formal imagination," according to the review's opening assessment.
- The reviewer frames the movie as offering a comparatively rare dramatic — rather than documentary — take on life under siege in Ukraine.
Why it matters: The film carves out space for dramatic — rather than documentary — storytelling about Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, framing it through a trans relationship lens that the wave of urgent nonfiction filmmaking about the conflict has largely not foregrounded.
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