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.

Luminous acting, plus painterly cinematography, plus expert musical scoring, equals heavenly cinema.Woody Allen cast Samantha Morton as the mute co-star to Sean Penn in `Sweet and Low Down' (remember the girl who never said a word, but spoke volumes?). After seeing her in this film, I don't think she even needed to audition.This film is especially for those who know that movies which are described by some as `about nothing' are usually the ones that are really about everything-everything that really matters. An intense and unforgettable journey for anyone with an emotional life.

"Dreaming of Jospeh Lees", a good, earnest and artful shoot, tells of the coming of age of a rural English girl and her conflict over a tentative romance with a close friend while yearning for a less available kissin' cousin for whom she's carried a torch since childhood. Over all a good film, this story lacks substance, spends its time poorly, toys with the audience in a fraudulent attempt to whet interest in the absence of a solid story, and is too far out of the mainstream to be popular. Nonetheless, for those patient few who can buy into the characters, "Dreaming..." will be a very satisfying watch.

i rented dreaming of joseph lees as a fan of rupert graves. i was not disappointed. samantha morton portrays eva as fragile, passionate, and naive, pining after her cousin joseph while living with the local pig farmer harry. harry's dependency and mental illness is disturbing and vaguely unexplainable; however, graves steals the film, sympathetically and realistically playing the mysterious joseph lees, carrying his own burden of a terrible accident in which is lost his leg. the ending is powerful and worth wading through the last half hour of harry's violent, pointless insanity and eva's maddening indecision.