As played by Emilio Vodanovich, the boy comes across variously as rascally and demonic. We hear Amanda - who’s first shown lying in a forest - recounting her memories at David’s insistent prompting. Shot by Oscar Faura (“The Orphanage”) with an unnerving, sunny lucidity that suggests something is off, the movie has an unusual, unsettling voice-over. Amanda and David are countryside neighbors. David’s father is called Omar and his mother is called Carla. Amanda is lying in a hospital bed speaking to David about unnecessary stories. But Carola voices concerns about her own child, David, that morph from maternal anxieties into intimations of evil. Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin narrates a strange story about a lady called Amanda, who finds herself hospitalized. She bonds with Carola (Dolores Fonzi), a restless local with the magnetic appeal of an undiscovered movie star. Amanda (María Valverde) has just moved into a country house with her daughter, Nina, and is waiting for her husband to join them. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. It’s almost a shame to specify plot details, because the film expresses a complex emotional perspective without clinging to the genre rules of mystery or the supernatural. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, and a love story. Lllosa’s sensually shot film takes the story of a mother facing strange danger and casts a spell that feels like being dropped into the character’s mind.
With “Fever Dream,” the filmmaker Claudia Llosa (“Milk of Sorrow”) enters the intimately destabilizing realms of the Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin, adapting her 2014 novel of the same title.
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