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The Dreamers: Bertolucci's Ode to Paris '68

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This movie is an homage to Betolucci's youth spent in Paris in '68 during the student upheavals over the French Cinema, the Viet Nam War, and the Red Movement. This is framed by three coolege students: two fraternal twins (Eva Green & Louis Garrel) and a lone American (Michael Pitt) who meet at a demonstration and strike up a strange relationship. The threesome end up spending a month in the twin's parent's apartment and live a bizarre, closed in life of games and secrets. As the movie continues on you become just a bit fatigued until Eva Green appears naked for the first time. Breathtaking at the least.

Eva continues on in various states of undress for the rest of the film and it would be most beneficial to install a windshield wiper on your screen or you will never see the end.

Bertolucci mixes documentary footage with his film to provide an accurate depiction of events during that time in Paris.

Released in 2003, this was Green's first film role and she proved at the tender age of 23 she is not shy. (Boy do they grow up fast over there.)

Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.

Follow Ups:

Philippe Garrel's Les amants r�guliers (2005) ... - Bhasi 01:28:26 11/11/09 (0)
... also stars his son, Louis, and covers the same period, counterbalancing the polish of Bertolucci's film with B/W cin�ma verit�. It conveys pretty well how boring youth and youthful antics, so 'important' at close hand, can seem from a distance. Highly recommended, though I paused it twice in its c.3 hours for espresso breaks!
Bernardo should have hung it up sometime after "Sheltering Sky." - tinear 16:54:03 11/10/09 (3)
"Little Buddha," starring Keanu Reeves (no, really).
"Besieged."
"Stealing Beauty."
"The Triumph of Love."
He's lost it.
Big time.
- He did the world's greatest movie....... - mr grits 17:01:15 11/10/09 (2)
  The Last Emperor
  
  SEVEN Oscars--should have been all of them.
  
  Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.
  - I thought you were going to suggest "Last Tango," or - eppis1 18:46:37 11/10/09 (0)
    ..."The Conformist." Those are my two favorites.
  - It was very, very good. You'd appreciate, "King of Masks." No. - tinear 18:11:45 11/10/09 (0)
    You'd love it.
    No thanks necessary after you see it and agree.

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