The Dreamers
Anna Chancellor, Eva Green, Evan Green
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. Matthew, an American exchange s...( read more
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DVD Released: July 13, 2004
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April 25, 2008I do understand the tribute, but I just don't think it's as good as everyone claims it to be. The constant references to the different silents and classics and so on seemed to be hastily implanted, which discombobulated the 'substance' for me. The only thing that seemed to have p... ...( read more )
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March 25, 2008I love film as much as this film loves film. Cinema at it's best
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February 9, 2008Great on so many different levels. One of Bertolucci's finest.
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January 23, 2008What the hell. This movie is about a bunch of naked kids that waste time in an apartment all day. Really pretty gross seeings how two of them are siblings.
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July 4, 2009I love how this movie blends in my two favorite activites: Watching movies and having sex. The discussions the three characters have about films make you sit up in your seat and listen to what they have to say, particularly their opinions are what is interesting. Eva Green is del... ...( read more )
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May 3, 2005
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
February 20, 2004
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
A rare movie made by and for adults, haunts its watcher for some time, despite its shortcomings. full review
February 13, 2004
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
An ambitious and exciting piece of work, a movie about sex and movies made by a filmmaker who understands the power of each to set off fantasy, create addiction, incite danger and transform the spirit... full review
February 13, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Above all it evokes a time when the movies -- good movies, both classic and newborn -- were at the center of youth culture. full review
February 13, 2004
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
It's funny, affecting, interestingly twisted, and seriously erotic before it heads south in the final stretch. full review
February 12, 2004
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
It's wonderful to see a film that takes back sex from the smutty teen comedies, that grapples with political ideas and shouts its love of cinema from the rooftops. full review
February 7, 2004
David Edelstein, Slate
It's possible that the NC-17 has never been used to such PG-13 ends. full review
February 5, 2004
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Bernardo Bertolucci's new film is an ardently romantic love song to sex, cinema and the spirit of the 60's. full review
February 3, 2004
Marcy Dermansky, About.com
Self-discovery is engrossing and all consuming, even when the world outside is literally erupting. Multiply discovery by three and the pleasure is that much greater. full review
January 29, 2004
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Bertolucci provokes audiences instead of pacifying them. Boy, do we need him now. full review
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July 18, 2006This is a treat of art, a real Masterpeace. A Powerful, beatiful, a giant achievement in movie history and for movie history. A movie that shows the real beauty of the body, the thought, the dreams, the soul, the eroticism, the rebelty, the union, the sex, the innocence and over all things the beauty of been young.
It show us an eutopia (a perfect world) where the most important thing are films and there is no war, no regrets, no politics that could destroy this, in the irony of USA meeting France, yeah you have to be a REAL DREAMER to watch and feel something like this.
All in this film is a tribute to the biggest films in life and to film lovers. This a gift to fans.
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