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The Dreamers

Fox, Fox Searchlight / Year: 2003

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Synopsis

Bernardo Bertolucci's latest is a splendid nudity-filled, evocative journey to 1968 Paris with three young cinemaphiles.

3 Reasons To buy this film

Michael Pitt and Louis Garrel share some sexy scenes of homoerotic tension.
Michael Pitt has an incredibly generous nude scene.
The three-way bathtub scene is perfection.

Review

Set amidst the Paris student rebellions of 1968, young American cinemaphile Matthew (Michael Pitt) meets Theo (Louis Garrel) and Isabelle (Eva Green) and they form a strange bond that intersects both sexual desire and an incestuous relationship. With the very photogenic rebellion as a backdrop, and music by Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, Bernardo Bertolucci casts a cinematic spell with his latest, virtually plotless film. The Dreamers is driven almost entirely by the nudity of its three young, hot-bodied stars and the deep Parisian atmosphere. Adapting Gilbert Adair's (Love and Death on Long Island) novel "The Holy Innocents" for the screen, Bertolucci has down-played the homoerotic in favor of hetero desire, but boys, have no fear there's plenty of full-frontal male nudity and even some glimpses of queer desire buried here.

This is a film chock full of incredibly cinematic references including Bertolucci's own Last Tango in Paris and the opening scene of Jean Seberg in Breathless. When the government shuts down the Cinématheque, the three film nuts stay put in the grandly elegant, decaying apartment and play pornographic games. Switching back and forth between archival black and white shots and the color-drenched film, Bertolucci gets you to forget everything, but what's on the screen. There is some magic at work here. While the story meanders on its priapic path, enjoy the scenery, you've got quite a view!

-- Scott Cranin

Product Format Information

DVD : $9.99 (NC-17 version)

Availability: In stock and ready to ship
Close Caption: Yes
Region Code: 1
UPC: 024543128083
Catalog #: DV2021481

Studio : Fox, Fox Searchlight

Languages: English Dolby Digital 5.1 (Primary) , French Dolby Digital Surround , Spanish Dolby Digital Surround , English Subtitles , Spanish Subtitles
Aspect Ratio: 1.85
Features:
Audio commentary: Director, writer and producer commentary with Bernardo Bertolucci, Gilbert Adair and Jeremy Thomas
"Events of '68" -- featurette, "The Making of the Dreamers" -- featurette, theatrical trailer
Music video(s): Michael Pitt "Hey Joe"

Customer Reviews

Loved it

Indie Buff wrote on 06/13/2006:

One of the most amazing movies I have ever viewed. Simple beautiful... the story can be a bit slow, confusing... forcing you to think. But, its what I am all about. Wonderful film. very controversial in terms of the nudity, incest situations, etc... but a gem all in all!!! Give it a try...

I liked it

Benny (benny.june@hotmail.com) wrote on 04/24/2005:

I thought it was a great film based on the french revolution and activists and just your ordinary people wanting there rights. Though it is a fast moving film and in this movie the plot shifts or should I say doesn't really exist. I had alot of your old american black and white films and parts of the movie if not all of it was based on american classics. Though it is a bit twisted of I though incest and thought it would have been leaning or at one point began that way with brother and sister humiliation. Alot of nudity but none the less it was a great film. It is a french film spoken mostly in english. I recommend this film and to those who aren't foreign film lovers this is your movie to watch as well.

Not Necessarily Gay

bmann27 (bmann27@yahoo.com) wrote on 11/03/2004:

This film confused me. I could find no discernable plot to follow. But who cares?! This film is chock full of full frontal nudity, of both genders, and the homosexual tension between the two male leads (the adorable Michael Pitt and the hunky Louis Garrel) left me breathless at times. Set in Paris during student rebellions of '68, three film buffs meet and become the strangest of friends. The friendship is at times almost brutal, and highly erotic at others. As stated, there really is no plot to follow with this film. so the viewer is free to sit back, relax, and enjoy the view.

Better than Last Tango!

Bertolucci Fan wrote on 05/18/2004:

While Bertolucci rightly gets a ton of praise for Last Tango in Paris, the presence of that old whale Brando always got in the way of the eroticism for me. The Dreamers is just as political, but thank goodness, the guys are OK to look at and Eva Green is smokin'.