Complete credited cast: | |||
Michael Pitt | ... | Matthew | |
Eva Green | ... | Isabelle | |
Louis Garrel | ... | Theo / Brother | |
Anna Chancellor | ... | Mother | |
Robin Renucci | ... | Father | |
Jean-Pierre Kalfon | ... | Self | |
Jean-Pierre Léaud | ... | Self (as Jean-Paul Leaud) | |
Florian Cadiou | ... | Patrick | |
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Pierre Hancisse | ... | First Buff |
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Valentin Merlet | ... | Second Buff |
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Lola Peploe | ... | The Usherette |
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Ingy Fillion | ... | Theo's Girlfriend |
Paris, spring 1968. 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. As film buffs they meet and 'adopt' modest, conservatively educated Californian student Matthew. 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. A sexual threesome shakes their rapport, yet only the outside reality will break it up. Written by KGF Vissers
THE DREAMERS (3 outta 5 stars) Interesting project by the renowned director Bernardo Bertolucci... dealing with the events of 1968 in France... a time of great social upheaval, as rioting students took to the streets to shut down the French government. The main characters are a young American student who has come to France to study film... and a very unconventional brother and sister who recruit him to their offbeat lifestyle. All three are obsessed by film (as many young people were in 1968... the glory days of the avant garde)... and also with the concept of breaking rules and societal taboos. With their parents away for the month and the flat to themselves, bets are made on film trivia and the penalties for not identifying a particular moment from a particular film become more and more shocking. Only leaving their home to watch films, the trio are basically oblivious to the growing trouble in the streets... until finally they can sit passively no more. Very intriguing concept and the acting is fine... but ultimately I thought the conclusion fell a little flat... the transition from sexual hedonism to political activism didn't really work for me... it all seemed a little abrupt and could have been explored a little deeper. Worth watching and discussing though.