As we’ve documented many times now, the book’s lucrative 2021 TV and movie adaptation train continues to roll, fueled by our relentless need for new streaming content, as well as source material for the fare. big budget theatrical. we all appreciate it. One of the best recent examples of this is Fever dream, an original Netflix movie that was just added to the streamer last month. It is based on the novel of the same name by Samanta Schweblin. And that fits a trend that we continue to see more and more not only at Netflix, but also on Apple TV + and elsewhere.
Masters of the Air and Five days at the Memorial, for example, are two upcoming series that Apple has endorsed, both based on critically acclaimed books. Likewise, Netflix continues to harness books for their adaptive potential, resulting in streaming series like Housemaid as good as You (which just released its final season last month). Fever dream is also a must-see movie. It skyrocketed to # 1 immediately after its October release. Now definitely worth going back to if you missed it.
Fever dream Netflix Movie – Now Streaming
Fever dream, meanwhile, is a feature-length book adaptation. And here is the official description for Netflix. “Told from a decidedly feminine perspective, this hallucinatory tale explores the interconnected nature of love and fear in motherhood.
“A woman named Amanda is on vacation in a sleepy Argentinian village with her young daughter Nina. Always concerned with the well-being of her daughter, Amanda constantly calculates the “rescue distance” necessary to protect her child. She soon discovers that the things around (her and her daughter) are not what they seem.
A haunting story of broken souls, an invisible threat, and family power and desperation.
FEVER DREAM, based on the novel by Samanta Schweblin, comes from director Claudia Llosa and producers Mark Johnson and Pablo Larraín. Now streaming on Netflix. pic.twitter.com/BMdVrRb2zx
– NetflixFilm (@NetflixFilm) October 13, 2021
The film was directed by Claudia Llosa, from a screenplay by Llosa and Schweblin. In Netflix’s press kit for the film, Llosa recounts her reaction after reading Schweblin’s book. After the last page was done, she immediately decided that she needed to bring this film to life as a feature film.
The story takes place in the Argentinian countryside, amidst breathtaking, sunny beauty that contrasts with looming environmental disasters. “It’s a horror story at its root, but unconventional,” producer Tom Williams said. Netflix Material Continues: “The Spanish Title Rescate distance (Rescue Distance) refers to a pivotal scene in the film in which Amanda questions the time and distance it would take to save her young daughter if she faced imminent peril. The constant awareness of danger and the need to rescue is a recurring theme in the film. “
“Intellectual horror”
As the book takes place in the Argentinian countryside, Chile was actually chosen for the filming location. Specifically, in the northern part of Patagonia, where filming took place in the spring of 2019.
“It’s almost a high-end, nerdy horror movie,” producer Mark Johnson said. “But I think it’s really about two mothers trying to protect their children from an invisible evil. The only important men in the film are distraught. They have no idea what is really going on. And women have that connection with their children, but also with the land, and with (an understanding of) what’s going on in the metaphysical world.
