The Dreamers
2003 Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
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A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
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Matthew : "Yes, I'm drunk. And you're beautiful. And tomorrow morning, I'll be sober but you'll still be beautiful."
Matthew (Michael Pitt) is a young and innocent American man settling down in Paris in the 1960's studying French and is in love with film. Matthew meets these two stunning and sophisticated young film buffs, just like him, Isabelle (Eva Green) and Theo (Louis Garrel) and an instant connection is formed while the three wander off and discuss film and politics. Soon enough, Matthew is invited to the sibling's home for dinner, where we find out the lifestyle of the two twins.
There were no subtitles on the copy I found, so from scene to scene they were speaking English then…
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"I don't believe in God, but if I did, he would be a black, left-handed guitarist."
In an instance such as this, when I'm struggling to think of "Reasons why I like this film," instead I try and think "What have I taken away and learnt from this film?"
In the case of "The Dreamers," I learnt that love doesn't necessarily have to be black and white or conventional. To love is uncontrollable and totally unpredictable. I learnt how tiny pleasures of erratic, seemingly crazy behaviour and mischief can be the light and soul of ones life. I learnt that things that are perceived by society as "wrong" and "out of bounds" may in fact sometimes just be the way things turn out and can be completely routine for others.
I learnt that sometimes, just sometimes, we as the general public should maybe learn to open our eyes and observe, or close them and dream.
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Bernardo Bertolucci is a man who knows what he likes. Of the movies I've seen that seems to be naked women and a bit of debauchery. From Maria Schneider's unorthodox use of butter in "Last Tango In Paris" to full frontal nudity of Rachel Weisz in "Stealing Beauty",he's a bit of a mucky puppy.
With "The Dreamers" he continued that trend with some eventful sex scenes and some near-the knuckle shenanigans involving the gorgeous Eva Green in a role that even her agent tried to talk her out of. Michael Pitt must also have had kittens at the thought of getting his knob out so frequently this felt like a biology documentary.
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"The street came flying into the room!" Isabelle screams and, just like the window, my love for this movie broke. I guess it's something of a strange triumph that Bertolucci makes the viewers so comfortable with Isa and Theo's world that, when we finally have to leave, something feels off. An ending is often what makes or breaks a picture and this one left me with a bad taste in my mouth. I was prepared to dismiss the entire film because of it. But then I remembered what came before: a story so genuine I couldn't help but see myself in it.
Never before have I witnessed a depiction of young adulthood so true in the way it shows the…
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This film asks the hard-hitting questions like who actually is the better guitarist: Hendrix or Clapton? (It's Hendrix by the way.)
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If you have any sense of an attraction to Eva Green then I highly recommend you watch this film immediately...
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Let me start of by mentioning that I haven't seen any other Bertolucci directed films. I watched this movie because I was told it was good and clearly not knowing anything about it, except that Eva Green is in it.
The film takes place during the 1968 student rebellions in France surrounding the life of an American exchange student who traveled to Paris to learn french. Most of his time there was spent watching films at the well known Cinémathèque Française, where eventually he met Isabelle, and her brother, Theo, also film lovers just like him. Over the next few days they form a VERY close friendship.
It's a very raw film but at some points it felt like they…
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Based on the bad press it received, I gave Bertolucci's (until recently) last film a miss when it first came out and I've been curious ever since.
It turns out the critics were right.
The Dreamers is a self indulgent flesh fest that hammers home its cinematic parroting too obviously and offers very little in the way of insight.
That said, it is a flesh fest and there is lots of cinematic parroting. The time passes well enough but I didn't find myself paying too much attention to what was going on because not much was.
Stylish but far too petulant for its own good.
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Well, this was wierd. The Dreamers contains the nastiest and craziest brother/sister relationship I've ever seen, and a whole lot of nudity. To me, the only positive about this movie was to see Eva Green in Eva's clothes. Fortunately, it was a lot of that.
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Matthew : "Yes, I'm drunk. And you're beautiful. And tomorrow morning, I'll be sober but you'll still be beautiful."
Matthew (Michael Pitt) is a young and innocent American man settling down in Paris in the 1960's studying French and is in love with film. Matthew meets these two stunning and sophisticated young film buffs, just like him, Isabelle (Eva Green) and Theo (Louis Garrel) and an instant connection is formed while the three wander off and discuss film and politics. Soon enough, Matthew is invited to the sibling's home for dinner, where we find out the lifestyle of the two twins.
There were no subtitles on the copy I found, so from scene to scene they were speaking English then…
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This movie has a lot more depth than I picked up on the first time I saw it, but my primary takeaway is still that sexy French people are sexier than other sexy people. Especially Eva Green. Which is probably why I didn't pick up on all that depth the first time I saw it.
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Bernardo Bertolucci is a man who knows what he likes. Of the movies I've seen that seems to be naked women and a bit of debauchery. From Maria Schneider's unorthodox use of butter in "Last Tango In Paris" to full frontal nudity of Rachel Weisz in "Stealing Beauty",he's a bit of a mucky puppy.
With "The Dreamers" he continued that trend with some eventful sex scenes and some near-the knuckle shenanigans involving the gorgeous Eva Green in a role that even her agent tried to talk her out of. Michael Pitt must also have had kittens at the thought of getting his knob out so frequently this felt like a biology documentary.
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The sexual tension between the 3 is heart breaking. The way politics, movies and Alex is put into one film is amazing. Probably my most favourite film
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It is 1968, Paris. The students march, they are protesting, against what is immaterial, as is immaterial that they are protesting at all. It is a backdrop. Of some young students who stayed young. And have to discover sexuality. We get to see bits of that. Suggestions of threesome, and some frontal nudity. It's kinda cute. I liked there is not just nudity but sexuality and the three main characters are all quite matter of fact about it. Very few movies are. Setting is Paris, perhaps that's why get away with it in a believable way.
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Louis Garrel and Eva Green, are awesome in the movie