Szumowska pulls off a virtuoso,
dreamlike sequence at the insufferably dull dinner party as her interviewee's «clients» take the place of her companions around the table, like leering ghosts at the feast, illustrating Juliette's increasing sense of disconnection from her own existence.
There's a brilliant
dreamlike sequence about halfway through the documentary Particle Fever, when theoretical physicist Nima Arkani - Hamed enters his building
at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, N.J., looking troubled.