Marianne Dreams

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Ali: So after that the house is very crumpled and grimy and smeared with dirt. It really does have the texture of something that has been in the bottom of a bin bag. Ren: Because she only draws the radio in it, and the radio goes wrong so she doesn’t draw anything else because she doesn’t think it will come out right if she puts it in that room.

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Well, they look like - you look yourself. Look between the bars, only don’t let them see you. Outside the fence - you can see between the posts. Be careful.’ In this episode we talked about the film Paperhouse, and the book it's based on, Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr. I think it may have also featured a house, but I particularly remember the flat 2d painted trees in the dream woods.Another one of her pupils, a boy named Mark, who we never see outside of Marianne's dreams, is also ill.

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Raven 1 9 7 7 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes This six-part children's TV serial from ATV featured 15-year-old ex-borstal boy… 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. It just seemed like an odd choice, because it seemed like it was moving the film from being about feelings about a genuinely threatening father, to then veer away from that a bit. Adam: It reminded me a bit of Knightmare, that whole sequence of her trying to do something without being able to see in the real world. Adam: I’ve only read The Weird Stone. He’s certainly got a good sense of the living world, or the world charged with animistic energy.Adam: Well, in the film he has muscular dystrophy. So we kind of know as adult viewers from the start that he’s probably going to die. Muscular dystrophy’s degenerative and pretty devastating. Adam: I think it gets across that feeling of being ill as a child. I had a lot of chest and ear infections as a young kid, so I definitely remember long days and weeks spent in bed and feeling stuffy and frustrated but also out of it and woozy. Lane End 1 9 7 2 (Australia) 7 x 30 minute episodes Short-lived Aussie serial Lane End debuted on 11 March 1972. Written… So, in Paperhouse, it’s a similar setup, Anna draws her father and then decides she’s drawn him wrong and scribbles his face out.

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Become a Faber Member for free and receive curated book recommendations, special competitions and exclusive discounts. Ren: The not-father is creeping down the stairs and Mark’s urging Anna to destroy just the part of the drawing with her father in it. But she’s asleep, so her sleeping self is reaching for this drawing, and she has a candle next to her bed, and she manages to set it on fire. Tea Ladies, The 1 9 7 8 (Australia) 8 x 30 minute episodes This short-lived Australian comedy series from ATV-0 was set in Parliament… Ren: I mean I think it’s definitely a proper quintessential children’s horror theme. In the Coraline vein of something familiar becoming unfamiliar and monstrous. But you don’t really know who it’s aimed for.Such is the quandary at the heart of Marianne Dreams. When the lively, imaginative Marianne falls suddenly ill on her tenth birthday with a curiously unspecified malady, she is confined to bed: potentially for several months. And her freewheeling lifestyle of riding lessons and slap-up feasts is transformed instantly into a claustrophobic existence of inactive misery; her world reduced to the toys and books that surround her, and the visits of three central adults: her mother, her doctor, and hired-in private tutor Miss Chesterfield. note: lighthouses again… there’s an undefinable something about lighthouses that has “hauntology” written all over it) Adam: (still laughing) Oh, that’s brilliant. Now I’m going to try and make Bergman connections. No, I don’t really think… Anna keeps mentioning her father, and how she wants to see him, but we also find out that in the past he’s been drunk, and there’s some implication that he’s been threatening. Or Anna, at least says ‘I don’t like him when he’s drunk’.

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Ali: The helicopter sound comes really early, and I was like ‘what, they’re putting the helicopter in now?’ I liked the book and the film, but I don’t know if the film works as a successful adaption of the book. I think it works on its own merits. A podcast in which one film lecturer and one scaredy-cat discuss creepy, spooky and disturbing children's books, films and tv. eerie dream steadily develops into a nightmare. The stones are threatening the children, trying to get inside the dream house, although it Ren: Yes, because it’s like — is it part of her illness, or is it because she set her bed on fire? You don’t know.I remember reading Marianne Dreams as a child and finding it quite disturbing, but also fascinating. Not sure whether it's one I want to revisit. The Polly and the Wolf books, by contrast, I only discovered as an adult and I love them! a b Eccleshare (2005) gives the date of her death as 8 January; Eccleshare (2001) and Thwaite (2001) give it as 6 January. 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.