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The Dreamers

2003

Bernardo Bertolucci

Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel, Eva Green, Robin Renucci ...

7.0

32,173

Drama Set against the turbulent political backdrop of France in the spring of 1968 when the voice of youth was reverberating around Europe, The Dreamers is a story of self-discovery as three students test each other to see just how far they will go. Left alone while their parents are on holiday, Isabelle (Eva Green) and her brother Theo (Louis Garrel) invite Matthew (Michael Pitt), a young American student, to stay at their apartment. Here ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The film is extraordinarily beautiful. Bertolucci is one of the great painters of the screen (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Besides being stylish, sexy and witty, the film feels authentic (...) A real pleasure."	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	is disarmingly sweet and completely enchanting (...) Movie love is not only the subject of 'The Dreamers,' but also its method."	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"Even those not in love with 'The Dreamers' will have to admit that Bertolucci has made a movie he probably would have liked as a young man and that his young protagonists would certainly like"	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Fans of film and gorgeous naked people of either sex will find much here to interest them. But it also has moments that make you want to throw stones (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Ty Burr Boston Globe	"It's funny, affecting, interestingly twisted, and seriously erotic (...) [Green] has the carnal impact of an electromagnetic pulse"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Bertolucci wants to take us back to a more revolutionary time, but mostly he ends up recalling the faded revolution of his own glory days."	POS
United States	David Rooney Variety	"This elegant but pretentious chamber piece chronicles the obsessively sexual menage of a trio of self-absorbed youths"	NEU
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"The Dreamers is a universal story, one that captures the thrill of discovering culture, sex, and politics, and the painful twinge of learning that those worlds aren't enough."	POS
United States	Jonathan Foreman New York Post	"A miracle of badness, a kind of art- house 'Showgirls' -- which actually exceeds "Showgirls" in its self-indulgence, shallowness and sheer stupidity."	POS

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