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DVD The Dreamers (Original Uncut NC-17 Version)
A love letter to movies (and the French new wave of the 1960s in particular), Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers starts with a 1968 riot outside of a Parisian movie palace then burrows into an insular love triangle. Matthew (Michael Pitt, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), an expatriate American student, bonds with a twin brother and sister, Isabelle (Eva Green) and Theo (Louis Garrel), over their mutual love of film--they not only quote lines of dialogue, they act out small bits and challenge each other to name the cinematic source. Matthew suspects the twins of incest, but that doesn't stop him from falling into his own intimacies with Isabelle. As the threesome becomes threatened, Paris succumbs to student riots. The Dreamers aspires to be kinky, but the results are more decorative than decadent; nonetheless, the movie's lively energy recalls the careless and vital exuberance of Godard and Truffaut. --Bret Fetzer
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A strange and unique feeling film, one that will leave an impression...
One of 2003's most provocative and controversial films that most no one has seen, `The Dreamers' is the type of movie you hate to love. It's full of faux political messages and odes to the movies of the 60's and French revolution wrapped in illicit sexual content, graphic nudity and incestuous overtones. While at times I think this film has trouble deciding what it wants to be, does it want to be a smart and intellectual character study, an adult film or a political drama, but aside from the sudden bits of confusion `The Dreamers' still attains a certain sense of self awareness. It's a confident film and it's because of that confidence that the viewer is forced to keep watching.
Young Californian Matthew (Michael Pitt) has just moved to France and is living in a shabby apartment. He soon meets and becomes close to twins Isabelle (Eva Green) and Theo (Louis Garrel) whose relationship borders on the unconventional. When the twins parents leave them alone for the month they invite Matthew to live with them and soon, very soon, he's been thrown into their games, from acting out famous scenes in movies to `forfeiting' (wait till you find out what that means). Matthew, while at first repulsed eventually Matthew becomes intrigued and joins in with their games. His relationship with Isabelle starts to tear the three of them apart, especially driving a wedge between the twins.
Michael Pitt gives Matthew a very restrained and curious appearance, a very natural and expected reaction to his surroundings, and Louis Garrel plays the jealous brother/lover almost precisely, but it's Eva Green who steals the show with her blatant sexuality and unique confidence in her character. As Isabelle, Green shows more maturity than her male co-stars and earns herself a spot in my most talented newcomers. I tend to enjoy `The Dreamers' a little more when they stick to their guns and keep the physical relationships between the three the prime focus of attention, for they begin to lose me when they engage in riots and scream through the streets.
It's not the best movie of 2003 but it's one of the more unique and challenging and definitely would break my top 20.
Fresh and Sexy Film
From a visual and sexual point of view, the result is so delight and hedonist's primer, but from a call to arms or discourse on the rights and wrongs of activists and pacifists, it comes across morally lite, as empty as the pilloried authoritarians who barely cover their lust for power with the thin threads of peace and democracy for all.The Dreamers is a bold film with fine performances and a few eye-popping moments. I'm glad the film-makers made it and I'm gladder that Fox Searchlight had the guts to release it uncut.I enjoyed the film overall.This is, without a doubt, an amazing film for any true art-film enthusiast to watch and enjoy.
Strange yet believable
Yes, this movie is strange, but considering events that I experienced in my youth, it is believable.
When a person is young, and is probing the scope and limits of rebellion, it is amazing what possibilities await. This is a movie about one young American who enters the bohemian-like world of native Parisians who are sister and brother. They share an interest in film, but the young American soon is faced with moral conflicts that ultimately lead him to a boundary he will not cross.
As an affair of the young, it is a beautiful and telling tale. Worth seeing.
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I enjoy a good erotic film as much as anybody, and as a producer of some very erotic fare, I especially respect anyone who wants to make an erotic movie -- but the subject matter of teen sexuality was too much for even me! I don't know how they can even get away with selling this movie in the states. This one goes a little too far. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Charlotte Alexandra - Hiram Keller Director(s): Catherine Breillat DVD Release Date: Released the 18 December 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I won't tell you, except to say that the answer is painfully obvious. Based on The Flanders Panel, a novel by Arturo Perez-Reverte, author of The Ninth Gate, this is a much less successful film than Roman Polanski's effort. The premise is intriguing, but the resolution is deeply disappointing. Beckinsale's character, furthermore, is so... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Jim McBride DVD Release Date: Released the 16 March 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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