‘Dreams’ Review: Jessica Chastain Gives a Daring Performance in Michel Franco’s Most Powerful Film Yet

‘Dreams’ Review: Jessica Chastain Gives a Daring Performance in Michel Franco’s Most Powerful Film Yet

Michel Franco is back in a pissed-off register about the world we live in with his crisply directed class critique “Dreams,” where the Mexican writer/director rails into the limousine liberal American one-percent identity with all the subtlety of a power drill. But the film’s quietly disturbing power lies in how Franco packages his U.S.-Mexico border metaphor — with rich philanthropist Jennifer (Jessica Chastain) and her young ballerina lover Fernando (Isaac Hernández, in a…