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- 2004
- R
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 55 m
- 2004
- R
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 55 m
Summary The tumultuous political landscape of Paris in 1968 is the backdrop as three young cineastes are drawn together through their passion for film. Matthew, an American exchange student, discovers in French twins Theo and Isabelle a relationship unlike anything he has ever experienced or will ever encounter again -- and he longs to be a part...
Directed By: Bernardo Bertolucci
Written By: Gilbert Adair
- 2004
- R
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 55 m
- 2004
- R
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- 1 h 55 m
The Dreamers
63
6.1
Summary The tumultuous political landscape of Paris in 1968 is the backdrop as three young cineastes are drawn together through their passion for film. Matthew, an American exchange student, discovers in French twins Theo and Isabelle a relationship unlike anything he has ever experienced or will ever encounter again -- and he longs to be a part...
Directed By: Bernardo Bertolucci
Written By: Gilbert Adair
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 40 Critic Reviews
63
57% Positive
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
38% Mixed
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
5% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 40 Critic Reviews
63
57% Positive
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
38% Mixed
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
5% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
The Dreamers is a real humdinger, at once an intimate romance, a glimpse into a rather unconventional friendship and a beautifully focused celebration of cinema itself.
The Dreamers, which is disarmingly sweet and completely enchanting, fuses sexual discovery with political tumult by means of a heady, heedless romanticism that nearly obscures the film's patient, skeptical intelligence.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 133 User Ratings
6.1
60% Positive
80 Ratings
80 Ratings
16% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
24% Negative
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 133 User Ratings
6.1
60% Positive
80 Ratings
80 Ratings
16% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
24% Negative
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
Desperation. Emptiness. Idealism. Naivity.
"The Dreamers" reflects the lives of those middle class adolescents in the late '60s who felt the need to revolt against the mainstream without really understanding what they were revolting against and what they wanted instead. "The Dreamers" reflects the disconnect between a generation of adolescents lost in bourgeois society, longing to get out but not knowing how.
Our main character is your generic intellectual who's living among people of a different culture and finds some people he connects with. He's dragged along a roller-coaster of sexual tension and alienation and enjoys every little bit of it, but in the end he realizes he's been living in a dream, he wakes up and moves on.
The symbolism is deep. The emotions are deep. I've rarely been this impressed by a movie, so all I can say is this : watch it with an open mind and let yourself go....
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By equal measure tragic and hopeful, it is both a love song to escapism and a warm embrace of the real world.
As the threesome's movie games push them into an incestuous menage a trois, the movie loses its grip.
It seesaws between disturbing psychosis and freewheeling nouvelle vague romance, then turns awkwardly editorial in the last reel.
The film's real failure is that neither the story nor the characters capture the zeitgeist that Bertolucci theoretically set out to celebrate.
A miracle of badness, a kind of art- house "Showgirls" -- which actually exceeds "Showgirls" in its self-indulgence, shallowness and sheer stupidity.
This movie is just beautiful, and it shines bright with all the colors and attractive Paris backdrop. Not much goes on, in terms of story other than sex and lots of nudity, but viewers can forget about that, since the movie is mesmerizingly shot an masterfully directed.
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After watching this movie I got the feeling that the strongest point of it is the participation of Eva Green, in her first movie by coincidence. The whole story is about three young students who are in Paris: two are French and are brothers, the third is an American and is doing an exchange to learn the country's language. Chemistry between them is intensified by their interest by cinema. From then on, the film beggins a series of debates (a little insipid to normal public but curious to the experts and movie-goers) about cinema, with cameos and tributes to several films and actors. Here, sometimes, its necessary to know cinema and to have some cinematic culture in order to follow everything. Then, as the events of May '68 take place, the three are getting more and more intimately involved. Sex is a structural part of the story from the beginning, its introduced very well by the sensuality and eroticism of Eva Green and isn't ugly or sinful, as in many films usually ends up becoming. However, full nudity scenes are many, can hurt sensibilities of more modest audiences and advise discretion before watch the movie.
This film is about revolutions, hopes, yearnings, dreams, sex and cinema. Everything is mixed, everything is a vehicle for dreaming, for the estrangement of reality. But if it weren't for the absolutely fantastic performance of Eva Green, seductive, strong and mysterious, the film would not have half the interest or quality it has.
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Such a boring movie. I don't see how for someone it is considered a, masterpiece!
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Un jeune Américain à Paris pendant mai 68 qui rencontre un couple de siamois (un frère et sa soeur) au bord de l'inceste. Putain.
Férus de cinéma intello-ringard, ces **** bourgeois feraient bien la révolution eux aussi -parce que cela semble amusant- en criant "mort aux fachos", mais se comportent en vérité comme des ados **** qui jouent à touche-pipi en citant des répliques de vieux films.
Forcément érotique, car Eva Green est de la partie (fine) et paie et trimbale ses lourds attributs... malheureusement, cela n'a rien de particulièrement joli ni émoustillant puisque la vulgarité est tutoyée d'un peu trop près à de nombreuses reprises.
Le seul intérêt potentiel étant tombé dans le caniveau, nous sommes fort dépités devant cet étalage d'imbécillités estudiantines (de gauche très vraisemblablement) aussi peu engageant que futile.
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Production Company
Recorded Picture Company (RPC),
Fiction,
Peninsula Films,
HanWay Films,
Fox Searchlight Pictures,
Medusa Film,
Tele+
Release Date Feb 6, 2004
Duration 1 h 55 m
Rating R
Tagline Bertolucci returns to politics & sex.
Awards
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
• 3 Nominations
Golden Ciak Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
European Film Awards
• 2 Nominations
