In one glorious moment, Bertolucci cuts seamlessly between the threesome racing through the Louvre and an identically staged sequence in Godard’s Band of Outsiders. United by their passion for cinema, they act out their favorite moments from the films they soak up at Henri Langlois’s legendary Cinémathèque-everything from Howard Hawks’s Scarface to Blonde Venus-and consciously turn their lives into a ménage right out of a New Wave classic. Matthew, Theo, and Isabelle are the kind of film lovers who sit rapt before the screen in the very first row. (Despite the film’s NC-17 rating, don’t expect a meltdown frankly, the film could have done with less ’68 and more 69.)
REAL SEX IN THE MOVIE THE DREAMERS MOVIE
It’s a movie about carnal mind games in which no one seems to possess much of a mind-their wits are too befogged by sex.
The quasi-incestuous siblings, with their echoes of Cocteau’s Les Enfants Terribles, are both looking to Matthew to break them apart drawn to Isabelle’s lusciousness, he obliges. A curly-lipped innocent, Matthew dutifully writes his mother back home in San Diego that he is “getting in with the right people,” but when he notices that Theo, who has the severe face of a young Artaud, and Isabelle sleep curled up together naked, it dawns on him just who he’s getting in with. Friendless at first, he hooks up with the twins Theo (Louis Garrel) and Isabelle (Green) and moves into their sprawling family apartment while their parents are on a holiday.
Matthew (Michael Pitt) is an American student in Paris during the turbulent spring of 1968, when young people throughout Europe were launching violent anti-government protests. He doesn’t entirely succeed, but the attempt has poignancy: As uneven as much of his recent work has been, Bertolucci’s still in love with the movies, and his ardor-if not always the ends he puts it to-is exhilarating. It’s as if Bertolucci, at 63, were trying to will himself into making a young man’s movie. As it turns out, The Dreamers, despite a fair amount of parading about in the nude by its lead actress (Eva Green), and a few requisite risqué moments, is rather sweet.
Its predecessors, The Conformist and Last Tango in Paris, are two of the most stunningly carnal films ever made, and his new one has been billed as a worthy addition to the hothouse. Photo: Twentieth Century Foxīernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers is his third movie shot in Paris. Wet Dreamers: Isabelle (Eva Green) and Theo (Louis Garrel) share more than a bath with Matthew (Michael Pitt, center mirror).
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