THE DREAMERS (2003) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Bernardo Bertolucci
Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel, Eva Green, Anna Chancellor,
Robin Renucci, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jean-Pierre Léaud
With revolution breaking out in the streets, three beautiful young cinemaphiles hole up in a Paris apartment, getting to know each other better. Two of them (Eva Green and Louis Garrel) are incestuous French twins. The third (Michael Pitt) is a Yank. At one point, Bertolucci has Janis Joplin on the soundtrack and Charlie Chaplin on the screen, while the boys argue about who's funnier, Chaplin or Keaton, and Eva cues up Janis on the record machine. The movie combines the 1968 street riots, a consuming passion for film, and enough graphic nudity to earn an NC-17 rating from the MPAA. Wes Anderson did a spoofier take on some of this stuff in the Timothée Chalomet episode of "The French Dispatch".
