In this early comedy, Moretti casts himself as Michele, a filmmaker living with his mother and trying to complete a screenplay entitled—ominously—“Freud’s Mother.” With a nod to Fellini’s 81/2, fiction and reality intermingle as the hapless cineaste begins to daydream scenes from his opus. The hallucinations culminate in a bizarre game-show scene, in which filmmakers engage in a verbal battle royale. Sweet Dreams, according to its director, “is not a film about cinema and it’s not even about the torments of an artist. . . . There’s suffering and pain in my film, but that’s not cinema, that’s life.”