Jan Troell's probing explorationof life in Sweden today reverberates universally in its concern for the quality of life under the nuclearshadow. Troell-by now one of Sweden's most accomplished feature film directors (Here Is Your Life, TheEmigrants, etc.)-returned to the documentary format of his beginnings (and he always prefers to be his owncinematographer) to make what he calls "the most personal film I have ever made and the most important."The film is built of interviews with Swedes, from politicians to chicken farmers, including a lumberjack, anold maker of tailor's dummies, a protector of wolves and a professional dog-killer. Troell makes his pointsimply by allowing people to speak about their lives: having set out with his camera to find fantasy,adventure and creativity to counter his growing sense of sadness, he found instead a concern for profit,comfort, and an increasing absence of vitality. It all contrasts profoundly with the beauty of the land whichTroell captures imaginatively; Sweden is still his land of dreams. Input by the American psychiatrist RolloMay (with whom Troell made a lengthy film interview in 1983) suggests that the Swedish state is too gooda parent, leaving the "kids" too little room to think up games for themselves. Troell, having just become afather at the age of fifty, asserts, "I want my child to grow up in a land where happiness takes precedenceover order." Land of Dreams has been selected for the Toronto Festival of Festivals '88.