Their interactions run parallel to the French government’s firing of the disorderly director of the Cinémathèque, Henri Langlois, and the ensuing outcry among cinephiles and filmmakers. Invited into the siblings’ flat just before their parents leave on vacation, he gets drawn into their perverse and vaguely incestuous games, which combine charades involving movies, sex, and ultimately politics. Those who wax nostalgic about the radicalism of their youth usually imply that the values that made it so attractive back then also make it impossible to hold on to today.īernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers, set in Paris over three months in early 1968, focuses on an American student, Matthew (Michael Pitt), who becomes intimately involved with a French brother and sister, Theo (Louis Garrel) and Isabelle (Eva Green), whom he meets at the Cinémathèque. Nostalgia is highly selective, abridging the past and adjusting it to fit the terms of the present - and often becoming an ideological con job in the process. With Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Robin Renucci, and Anna Chancellor. From the Chicago Reader (February 20, 2004).

While the May 1968 Paris student riots-which eventually shut down most of the French government-are happening around them, the three friends develop a relationship unlike anything Matthew has ever experienced, or will ever encounter again. Matthew, an American exchange student, pursuing his education abroad in Paris, becomes friends with a French brother and sister duo, named Theo and Isabelle, who share a common love of the cinema. The tumultuous political landscape of Paris in 1968 serves as the backdrop for a tale about three young cineastes who are drawn together through their passion for film.

A sexual threesome shakes their rapport, yet only the outside reality will break it up. With their parents away for a month, they drag him into an orgy of indulgence of all senses, losing all of his and the last of their innocence. As film buffs they meet and 'adopt' modest, conservatively educated Californian student Matthew. While most students take the lead in the May 'revolution', a French poet's twin son Theo and daughter Isabelle enjoy the good life in his grand Paris home. The tumultuous political landscape of Paris in 1968 serves as the backdrop for a tale about three young Paris, spring 1968.

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