Ms Noonan sometimes tries to be over-inventive (there is a rather tedious dream sequence about Hollywood fund-raisers).

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Inside, it is a dream sequence from a David Lynch film, minus dwarves.

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The album closes with "Personal Tornados, " a dream sequence with a gun, a giraffe, fireworks, tiny tornadoes, and wind blown hair.

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The scene on the wall looks like a prehistoric dream sequence.

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The movie opens with a Fellini-esque dream sequence, highlighted by digital images of famous literary figures such Jorge Luis Borges and Marguerite Yourcenaur, as well as the real-life Tom Waits.

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Brought into the prospering family business (a tannery) by his father-in-law, Pierre spends his days in comfortable ennui and his nights in sexual frustration (revealed in a jaw-droppingly strange and clever dream sequence), which he hopes to cure with his comely new secretary (Nicole Kalfan), his contemplated pursuit of whom builds to a giant wind-up toy of ludicrously intricate complications.

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