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India Press Store - The Dreamers (Original Uncut NC-17 Version)
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List Price: $9.98
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Michael Pitt (II), Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Anna Chancellor, Robin Renucci
Directed By: Bernardo Bertolucci
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NC-17
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543128083
Format: Anamorphic
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2004-07-13
Running Time: 115
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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Summary: Everything you'd expect from Bertolucci
Comment: Ah, NC-17. Possibly one of the dumber ratings out there. The concept is great! Tag movies, like this, that aren't made for kids but are for an adult audience, with a rating that keeps kids away. In principle this is great! In execution, it's been deeply flawed. Newspapers won't advertise films with this rating, most reviewers won't review them, and studios won't generally allow them to be released. It's to the credit of Fox that they allowed this rather nice little movie to be put out uncut (though one of the male leads isn't... ha! Penis joke!).
The story concerns an American in Paris, played by Michael "Drop-pants Gorgeous" Pitt. He's a student visiting there who falls in with a twin brother/sister pair who love movies as much as he does. The twins aren't quite incestual, but they're as close as anyone can get.
The movie is something of a love-note to cinema. You see clips from a lot of the greatest movies of the early days of film, and get to see the kids recreate several of the scenes for their own (occasionally erotic), amusement. The movie also expertly highlights Paris in the late 1960's, giving you a real feel for the time and place and for what was going on.
Where the film fails... well, it doesn't fail in any real big ways. I gave it four stars because it felt like something was missing, though I couldn't put my finger on what (part of it is that the two male leads have an obvious simmering attraction to each other that doesn't get acted upon in the movie. I understand it does in the book the film is based on). There wasn't anything bad or wrong about the movie, but something did seem to be missing.
One thing that isn't missing, though, is acres of bare flesh. If you're one of those who doesn't like to see close-ups of penises and vaginas, then this likely isn't the film for you.
I'd actually recommend this movie for just about anyone over the age of 13 or so, provided you're a parent who doesn't mind your kids seeing a movie with lots of sexuality but no violence. If you'd prefer it the other way around, perhaps you need to rethink your priorities.
I haven't seen many other Bertolucci films, so I can't really compare them to this one. I know I liked it, though, and it's worth owning on DVD.
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Summary: Perfect end
Comment: 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. My favorite
book about Kama Sutra is a perfect march with this movie Sex and the Perfect Lover: Tao, Tantra, and the Kama Sutra
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Summary: cool look at free thought
Comment: i really enjoyed the way free thought and expression was protrayed. interesting look of the time. great look at young carefree love.
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Summary: The NC-17 version is the ONLY version to watch!!
Comment: Ahh, watched this one again with two friends. Eva is glorious. Her performance! Her nakedness! Michael Pitt and the other gent's performances and nakedness are, as well, wonderful. The age of innocence. I love the playful exploring (sexually/psychologically) they do. The freedom. The myriad movie references. A salute to vintage film. Lovely. Dreamy. It will say what it wants to say to you. For more to that end, you can easily check out a thoughtful review by Roger Ebert. Worthy.
So, if you're looking for something with an edge, challenging sexual situations (yet with a purity), marvelous cinematography, music, and, of course, my favourite, MOOD--then you might do well to give this your undivided attention. Lovely. Beautiful.
Enjoy-enjoy!
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Summary: Pretty And Charming But Nothing To Say
Comment: I wouldn't say this movie is a bad film, but afterward you won't gain any food for thought from it. The two stars of the film are Eva Green's boobs. For the ladies, there's dongs hanging out quite a bit. Basically, the movie is about nudity, and three young characters trying to appear just likable and jolly enough to hide the fact they're in a softcore movie, with a few boundry pushing moments (that won't be that shocking to mature adults in this day and age I would think.) I'm not trying to be mean, but despite the great music, taboo subjects, and 60's counter-culture, everything about the plot is pretty much dull and cut'n'paste version of those things. Oh yeah, the characters are film buffs too, which really leads to cut'n'paste, as moments from their favorite films are sprinkled in the movie. So overall, I felt the whole story was ineffective, and the structure of the film ends up what I guess you could call "cute." The atmosphere and candid spirit of sexual adventure are what take a film that can't find anything to say and at least make it a comfortable trip. The question is, is that enough to make it a great movie, or is this a great cop-out that shouldn't think itself any greater than a skinemax late night movie? That's what I'm still wondering, and believe me I'd prefer the film had raised more substantial questions than that.
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Editorial Reviews:
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From Academy Award®-winning director Bernardo Bertolucci (The Last Emperor, 1987), comes an erotic tale of three young film lovers brought together by their passion for movies -- and each other. When Isabelle and Theo (Eva Green, Louis Garrel) invite Matthew (Michael Pitt) to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and anything is possible. Featuring an engaging, seductive cast, The Dreamers is a ?spellbinding, provocative feast!" (Ebert & Roeper)
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