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another dreamy movie from Bertolucci
This is, simply put, a wonderful film. It's funny, nostalgic, and beautifully photographed. The three leads fill their roles nicely and add a young exuberant sexiness to the story. Film fans are sure to have fun picking out all of the nods to other famous and more obscure movies that Bertolucci has sprinkled throughout his film. History buffs will enjoy the impeccable feel for time and place that was Paris, France in the 1960's. Bertolucci necessarily assumes that the viewer is atleast moderately acquainted with the historic revolutionary events that surround and threaten to swallow up the main characters as they become consumed with their own increasingly isolated activities. If you're not one of those people, there is a thorough survey of this history in a comprehensive documentary contained on the DVD. As with some of Bertolucci's other patently adult films, this one contains an ample amount of full frontal nudity, but it's never shown on screen simply to be exploitative or controversial. It just is what it is. The nudity and sex are refreshingly honest and add a truly elevated sense of abandon that inhabits each of these characters as they become increasingly consumed with their own paranoia and desires. I'll offer no spoilers here except to say that a brick thrown through a window is the beginning and the end. You'll understand what I mean after seeing this film. One final note: You may find one character's bathroom behavior particularly odd and inexplicable. Let's just say, I'll never again think of a bathroom sink in quite the same way. Enjoy!


The Dreamers
Eva Green was wonderful with a body made for sculpture. This is a thinking person's movie but, it has a generous amount of nudity to please the voyeurs. The movie was great right up until the ending that leaves the viewer unsatisfied.

Bertolucci is brilliant again
This is one beautiful, provoking, intelligent film. Brilliant direction, a daring and unsettling story, excellent acting by young and unknown actors, and an excellent setting. I think many who have or will see this film, like some previous reviewers, will see this film only as a Euro-sex romp or overtly fleshy movie. These are the people who see only what is drawn in a painting, read only the basic plot of a book, and notice only what happens in a film without thinking of why or how the artist does these things. They as well do not grasp the underlying subplot(s)and relationships things have to each other and how they are important to the whole work. Take "Adaptation", for example.
I hope you don't read the review by John Griffith's review. He's a really dum guy. First of all, it's rated R and a Bertolluci film (duhhhhh, will this have sex and/or nudity in it?). Second of all, he (like so many others before him) see this as only "vulgar" and distasteful. If you don't like nudity or sex then DON'T WATCH A BERTOLLUCI MOVIE! It's real simple. Griffith is no doubt a mathhead/sports jock type with the imagination of a lead pipe and happy that way. He'd watch "Last Tango In Paris" and call it a porno, read half a John Dos Passos book and put it down cuz it was "boring" and watch a baseball game. I'd lay down money he'd jump at the chance to play Matthew's or Theo's part in this fim opposite the wonderful and lovely Ms. Green.
The truth is, there is not that much nudity in the film. Nor is there much nudity outside of Theo. A bathtub full of soapsuds covering all hardly counts. Neither is there much "sex" as we generally think of it. Eva Green's character is actually a virgin in the film until she has one brief experience with Matthew. As for "incest", as mr. griffith put it, not true. He never even touches on the fact that Isabelle and Theo are twins, and as such they have a extremely close and special connection that is different than that of other siblings. This connection is very confusing and disturbing to Matthew at first, until he comes to understand them as one person with two parts. Instead, there is a plot set in the midst of a very turbulent and potentially explosive time in Paris, France, 1968. Three characters are joined by their love of film as well as their great passion for true freedom. Their very different lifestyles clash until they come to a mututal respect and admiration for each other. One aspect never changes, though, and it will keep them from ever coming together completely.

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