Sneak Preview: Bertolucci's Dreamers

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This sexy film takes place in Paris in 1968 during the student revolution--its how a young American's life is turned upside down when he moves in with an incestuous brother and sister. Here's the trailer, which includes Hendrix's 'Hey Joe'...

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchli...amers/high.html

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Here's the review from Salon.com

"The Dreamers"

Bernardo Bertolucci's uncut NC-17 film may be the most explicit film ever released by an American studio, but there's much more to it than just hot sex

By Charles Taylor

Feb. 6, 2004  |  Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Dreamers" contains what may be the most startling first kiss in the movies. Matthew (Michael Pitt), a young American student trawling around Paris during the spring of 1968, is taken under the wing of Isabelle (Eva Green) and Theo (Louis Garrel), twins he's met during his nightly devotional sojourns to the Cinémathèque Française. One evening, they take Matthew home to their parents' rambling apartment for a dinner en famille. Isabelle and Theo's parents retire for the evening, leaving the three young people to themselves. Making her way to bed, Isabelle leans over to kiss Matthew goodnight, and as she does a candle flickering on the kitchen table catches her long, raven hair on fire.

The action is both dreamy and superfast. The film blurs and, for a split second, goes into slow motion, much the way our senses do in the seconds before a first kiss. Time stretches out, as it does at the approach of ecstasy or calamity. Matthew instinctively claps the flame out between his hands, Isabelle's own hands cover his, and, their faces close, they drink each other in longingly before she leans in for her kiss.

The moment is a wonderful joke, Bertolucci's equivalent of the scenes in old movies where lovers finally kiss and fireworks erupt in the sky above their heads. Matthew and Isabelle, lovers-to-be, literally spark when they first draw near each other. And yet it's anything but a joke. That one moment -- the hint of danger, the plunge of adolescent romance, the shiver of the erotic -- holds the promise of all of the movie to come. And it's a promise that Bertolucci and his fearless trio of young actors keep.

The release of "The Dreamers" in its uncut form in this country represents a triumph for Bertolucci, who, it was thought, would have to cut the film to gain an R rating. And it represents an act of real guts on the part of its distributor, Fox Searchlight (the specialty division of Twentieth Century Fox), who stood up to the kangaroo court of the MPAA ratings board and elected to accept an NC-17 classification. Whatever you think of "The Dreamers," Fox Searchlight has struck a blow for adult moviegoers in America, and honor is due it.

To read the rest of the review, go here:

http://www.salon.com/ent/indie/2004/02/06/...mers/index.html