Mexican ballet dancer Isaac Hernández co-stars as an undocumented immigrant who pins his bid for permanency in the U.S. on his relationship with a wealthy San Francisco philanthropist.

Jessica Chastain has always had something of the ice princess about her, reinforced by her finely moulded, porcelain features; it comes to the fore here. When Jennifer and Fernando are together in Mexico,

If for nothing else, Michel Franco's wan and repetitive new effort gives us a crystalline definition for "victim of one's own success." For there is really no way to separate the deflation that sets in early in "Dreams" from the surprise that so agreeably built throughout his prior entry,