Adam: Or the white king possibly. Anyway, the sleeping monarch’s dreams. And Alice is very upset by this, and protests that that’s not true. So Mark seems equally upset by the idea that he might just be a character in Marianne’s dreams. Ali: I guess it’s pretty significant that in the book by this point, Mark is recovering in the real world, and in the dream world he’s pretty much fine whereas that’s not what happens in the film. Ren: Is the horror increased by imagining them hopping along, or does it make them less horrifying?

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Ali: To be fair, if it was just a ladder that was propped up against a cliff, that would be quite dangerous to climb down. As I’ve said before in this podcast, the 1980s just seems like it was this special decade, particularly when it comes to making films. I mean, I like Paperhouse, but who is it made for? Adam: Yeah, agreed. But anyway this radio is drawn far bigger than a regular radio, and is embedded in the wall.

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The children don’t get on too well at first and when Mark buys Miss Chesterfield a more impressive bunch of birthday roses than Marianne, she vents her annoyance by drawing some menacing boulders with eyes surrounding the dream house. Ren: Well, I think it’s immediately creepy from the first time she goes int the dream to the house and it’s this flat-looking house on this absolutely deserted plain because she hasn’t drawn anything else, and the wind whipping through the grass, and it definitely has a pretty eerie atmosphere from the beginning. Adam: And then an odd thing happens in the film, which is that Mark’s voice in the imaginary voice-over then morphs into the voice of Anna’s mother. Together with the boy at the window, Marianne finds her dream world increasingly austere and frightening; the land is cold and barren and there is force watching them; waiting. Ren: So Anna’s mother is quite frazzled, and her father is away for long stretches of work. And Anna compared to Marianne is a much more rebellious kid. Marianne is in bed for weeks at a time, convalescing, whereas Anna doesn’t seem to spend more than a few minutes in bed before she’s up wandering around.

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Adam: It reminded me of rewatching Big with my sister, the Tom Hanks film in which he’s young and in the body of a boy, and there’s a whole relationship scene where me and my sister were going ‘Oh ho ho, wouldn’t it be awful if something actually romantic happened’, and it does, and we were both quite horrified. Ren: Yeah, and for some reason the room that the radio’s in is kind of more sinister than the rest of the house. Ren: It’s a really amazing looking scene! The candles blow out and the not-father looms up and says: ‘daddy’s here!’

In this episode we talked about the film Paperhouse, and the book it's based on, Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr. 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. In comparison to what is shown today this was truly terrifying, and very imaginative. I've never read the book though. Adam: The father is almost notably absent, I’d say, in Marianne Dreams. He’s mentioned maybe twice, but very much isn’t present, interestingly. So I thought that the film maybe reflected that by having the father not present, and being away for his work. Maybe Marianne is travelling to another planet, or to the underworld where the dead are, or to purgatory, or a parallel excistence? The narrative doesn’t rule it out. Maybe the actual dreamer is elsewhere? Again, the narrative doesn’t rule it out.

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She had met the psychiatrist and author Anthony Storr (1920–2001) during her training and married him in 1942. They had three daughters, Sophia, Polly and Emma, but divorced in 1970. She later married the economist Lord Balogh (1905–1985). [6] 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. note: lighthouses again… there’s an undefinable something about lighthouses that has “hauntology” written all over it) 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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Ren: So one of the main differences between Marianne Dreams and Paperhouse, is that Paperhouse introduces this whole thread with the father and the storyline about Anna’s family. Whereas her parents are fairly irrelevant to Marianne Dreams, her mum just brings her things. 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 ]