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Hommage to Jean-Luc Godart
It is incredible that twenty eight previous reviewers have not noticed that the entire film is an hommage to Jean-Luc Godart's 1967 La Chinoise, with Jean-Pierre Leaud (Truffaut's Antoine Doinel), and Juliet Berto.
In fact, most of the scenes are actually shot in front of a contemporary poster of the film.
The sounds of the ongoing street demonstrations coming from the window are invisible to the viewers, but the poster is constantly within view. To understand 1968 we are referred to La Chinoise.
The world of La Chinoise is total confusion. The student protagonists are struggling to find a reason and a channel for their state of mind. What had started as rebellion became a cause not clearly determined. La Chinoise is about that search.
What The Dreamers is about is not so clear.

I really loved this film
I saw this film when it opened in Minneapolis last week and I sat in the cinema stunned for the whole 2-hour duration of the film. I wasn't exactly sure what to expect when I went to see it, I thought it would have a lot of skin being rated NC-17, explore themes of incest and bisexuality and offend a lot of people. This film has all that, but all the more, it shows how we cannot take the rules that we have on our lives and use them for anything.

What I mean is that people have certain norms and styles that they follow based on personal experience and their surrounding culture, so they set up behavior patterns that are acceptable and abide by the rules of those behavior patterns. Ordinarily, one would think that the relationship between Theo and Isabelle is unhealthy and that they are too close. It's not quite incestuous, but what I want to say is that watching this film is like being one of the characters and it forces you to abandon your rules on how to interact with people and makes you see that each situation, each individual that you meet is an original experience and can only be treated on face value. You can't say "well, I'm a boy, so I will not tell another boy that I love him" or "it is not natural for brothers and sisters to be this close and for me to be involved with the both of them, mentally or physically" because in this particular situation for these three people, Matthew, Isabelle and Theo, everything that looked unnatural or wrong on the outside actually was quite natural with them. One must be there to experience what they were feeling to understand, it can't really be communicated with words. I'm sure if Matthew were to tell his American friends about his liason with these to Frenchpeople, it would have no credibility.

This film also has an explosive ending. As far as I'm concerned, the ending is perfect, while I was watching, I was hoping that this film would not self-destruct with a cliched ending. I won't give it away, but Mathew's final interaction with Theo and Isabelle grabbed me with its sincerity and its reality, how no good thing seems to ever last.

So yeah, there has been no film more important to me in the last year. I can't recommend this film enough to everyone. And one shouldn't be offended by nudity or sex, it's a part of all of our lives. It always has baffled me how people have a problem with sex in film but they're okay with people getting really hurt physically, such as being blown to bits.

A dream of a movie for true movie lovers.
The awakening of the senses and the discovery of the different kinds of love amidst the chaos of political upheaval, decadence, the French New Wave, and growing up in Paris. A beautifully directed, acted, and edited film that throws in scenes from classic movies periodically, but to brilliant effect. It's sophisticated cinema. The story is not paced in the more mainstream lightning speed, but it's put together so tastefully (the NC-17 rating is almost unjustified) that it becomes a pleasure to watch. I simply loved it. It's a very adult movie, and the nostalgic mood is intoxicating. Bravo Bertolucci!!!

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