I definitely like your fictional movie better. The description jives with the impressions I've soaked up about the films of Bela Tarr, none of which I've yet seen though two of them have made it as far as my collection, though I'm unsure about the saturation -- Tarr's films are all in b&w, though he's a contemporary director, alive and, well, perhaps a little dark. So dark that I find myself daunted by the prospect of watching them, though Tarr is Don Keller's favorite director.

I've been having long, cinematic dreams too, and remembering far too little of them, though the other night I dreamt I exchanged life-breath with my brother's middle-aged black thoroughbred racehorse Magic, with whom I'd had a long chat on Christmas morning, and awoke feeling peaceful and restored.