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The Dreamers (Original Uncut NC-17 Version)

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Studio: 20th Century Fox
Catalog: DVD
Release date: 2004-07-13
Media: DVD
released in theatres: 2003
Running time in minutes: 115
DVD aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NC-17
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
DVD Region code: 1
released in theatres: 2003
Ean: 0024543128083
Upc: 024543128083
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Director:
Bernardo Bertoluccisee more Dvds by Bernardo Bertolucci
Actors:
Michael Pitt (II)see more Dvds with Michael Pitt (II)
Eva Greensee more Dvds with Eva Green
Louis Garrelsee more Dvds with Louis Garrel
Anna Chancellorsee more Dvds with Anna Chancellor
Robin Renuccisee more Dvds with Robin Renucci

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 Rating 3   Written on April 25, 2008
   Summary: Bertolucci's return to Paris isn't entirely successful
Matthew (Michael Pitt) is a young American student who is studying in Paris. He spends his days and nights at the Cinematheque where a large number of film buffs gather to watch the latest films from all over the world. Matthew notices two people always in the audience like himself but doesn't have the courage to introduce himself. One day during a protest in front of the theater which has now been shut down by the government he befriends the girl Isabelle (Eva Green) and her brother Theo (Louis Garrel). They have noticed him too and wonder about him. They invite him over to dinner to meet their folks and then when the folks leave in the morning for a month abroad they invite him to move in with them. Matthew is shocked by not only how eager they are to invite someone they don't even know to live with them but also by a discovery he made in the middle of the night: Theo and Isabelle lying nude in the same bed together. However the lure of Isabelle is too hard to resist so Matthew moves in with the incestuous siblings and the three spend their days debating movies and playing games with each other that start off in good fun but turn sexual. Matthew reveals that he is a pacifist and that he doesn't agree with the violence that is taking place outside of the apartment which greatly contrasts with Theo who believes in revolution and quotes Mao regularly. Soon with Theo as instigator and Isabelle a willing participant Matthew is drawn into their sexual games. This comprises a third of the movie and there is nothing wrong with the sex and nudity since Eva Green is not only very attractive but has an unbelievable body but the problem is that nothing of consequence happens until the film's last act. It is only when the riots outside literally shatters their revel in the apartment that the three must take sides and take action. Michael Pitt despite being an odd looking version of Leonardo DiCaprio is a very good actor and his final look at the siblings at the end of the film is devastating. Matthew tries to convince the siblings that they can't live like this playing these kind of games with each other that they need to let each other go in order to grow up. Isabelle doesn't provide any sort of resistance to either man Matthew or her brother she loves them both. Theo is the most volatile of the group as he quickly becomes tired of Matthew sleeping with Isabelle but is more angered by his pacifist views. The film is a nice tribute to youth and the sixties which is what Bertolucci was hoping to make but the actual consequence and the three characters having to deal with the political revolution taking place around them comes too late. The DVD has a commentary track by Bertolucci as well as the screenwriter and producer, a very good hour long making of shot by the BBC which shows the serious intentions of everyone making the film and how hard of a director Bertolucci was on his cast, and there is also a thirteen minute doc on the events of 68 which are recreated for the film. Lastly are two trailers and a music video of Michael Pitt and the amusingly named Twins of Evil doing a cover of Hey Joe which is used in the film. Its a good movie with some good performances and some fantastic nude scenes but the serious intentions to educate the audience about the political landscape of Paris in 68 is not handled well.

 Rating 5   Written on April 21, 2008
   Summary: One Of My New Favorites
This gloriously liberated movie is a tough one to describe, and if you've seen it, you know what I mean. And please do see it uncut. It's just ridiculous to do otherwise because you'll lose much more than a few nude scenes, you'll lose its fearless magic.

As the fortieth anniversary of France's 1968 riots arrives, Bernardo Bertolucci's impressive but oft overlooked 2003 opus, The Dreamers, is suddenly at the fore of films which commemorate an explosive moment in modern European history of which few Americans are even aware. It is as if it took half a decade for the world to catch up with this a work of startlingly immodest originality, and find a place for it. With its near constant full frontal nudity, male and female alike, its non-erotic, non-pornographic, extremely realistic depictions of sex, its physically beautiful cast, its homage to films of the cinematic Golden Age, The Dreamers is a motion picture as vaguely disturbing as it is freakishly endearing, as frankly sexual as it is slightly dopey, as limited in its ability to display its inner imaginings as it is uninhibited in its capacity to aim unabashedly high in its artistic ambitions.

Set in Paris in 1968, mostly in a slightly decayed yet opulent flat populated by parentally unchaperoned, semi-incestuous post-adolescent twins (Eva Green and Louis Garrel) and their American guest, The Dreamers quietly presents itself sans apologies, and is soon revealed as a long, faintly claustrophobic tale of sex and mind games among members of a love triangle: a misplaced American loner traveling in France, and two native-born siblings whose obvious ennui is raw material for the shockingly sick games they undertake with one another. While somehow innocent, even sylph-like, the twins, Theo and Isabelle, compel each other and their American guest, Matthew (Dawson's Creek's Michael Pitt) to carry out depraved yet apparently consequence-free acts upon themselves and each other. Citing shared radical politics and an ardent love of film (a medium whose sheer otherwordly unreality mirrors the twins' own lives), the trio bond as soul mates and play at fantasy inside their sheltered realm, even as outside riots rage and sudden poverty forces them to dine on other people's refuse. Nothing seems capable of infusing reality into the twins self-created little universe, though at times Matthew breaks free of the spell long enough to try, as when he asks Isabelle, long-since his lover, out on her first date.

There are better films out there but none exactly like this. It has to be seen to quite be believed.


 Rating 3   Written on April 19, 2008
   Summary: The Dreamers (Original Uncut NC-17 Version)
This movie is intriguing and beautifully artistic. This movie is a bit awkward at the same time, but if you like a movie that is disturbing and to the point where you can not look away at the same time then i recommend the movie. The only downside to the movie is the ending it leaves you wanting more.

 Rating 5   Written on April 11, 2008
   Summary: Looks Stunning Upconverted by an HD player and TV
I have an HD player and HDTV and this disc looks stunning on it. The image fits the screen perfectly (16:9) and the picture is one of the best of any standard disc upconverted to HD that I've seen. The sound is also excellent.

 Rating 3   Written on March 29, 2008
   Summary: eva green showcase
This is an odd little movie, but then it is a Bertoluci movie. The plot is about two weird self-indulgent French siblings and an American boy along for the ride on their erotic meanderings through the May 1968 Paris riots.
It is fully deserving of it's nc-17 rating and Eva Green is amazing in her nudity.

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CatalogDVDDVDDVDDVDDVDDVD
Release date2004-07-132006-02-142005-11-222002-02-052004-03-162005-11-29
MediaDVDDVDDVDDVDDVDDVD
released in theatres200320052004199919942005
Running time in minutes11593718411285
DVD aspect ratio1.85:11.78:11.85:11.66:11.33:11.85:1
Audience RatingNC-17UnratedNR (Not Rated)UnratedR (Restricted)R (Restricted)
Picture format---Letterbox--
FormatAnamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSCAC-3, Color, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSCAC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSCClosed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSCClosed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Live, Subtitled, NTSCAC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
DVD Region code111111
DVD layers---1--
DVD sides---1--
Ean002454312808308215755341540842498020074978157362777100122361510749780780652811
Book Isbn---1573627771-0780652819
Upc024543128083821575534154842498020074031398724933012236151074794043843228
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